“You know how dey say some people “devour” books? Not in da way ME do! Me REALLY devour books!”
“Read day and night, devour books—these sleeping pills—not to know but to forget! Through books you can retrace your way back to the origins of spleen, discarding history and its illusions.”
“Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.”
“Some books should be tasted,some devoured but only few should be chewed and digested thouroughly”
“There was I, devouring books and yet allowing a man who had never read a book to walk me home for a bit of harmless fumbling on the front steps.”
“If you were to turn into a snake tomorrow and begin devouring Humans, and from the same mouth you devoured Humans, you cried out to me 'I love you!', would I still be able to say 'I love you' the same way I do today?”