“Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.”
“There's no flesh or blood within this cloak to kill. There's only an idea. Ideas are bulletproof.”
“Besides, if there were no dragons of flesh and blood and fire, whence would come the idea for these stone carvings?”
“Flesh and blood needs flesh and blood, and you're the one I need”
“Dreams, books, are each a world; and books, we know,Are a substantial world, both pure and good:Round these, with tendrils strong as flesh and blood,Our pastime and our happiness will grow.”
“My understanding of the meaning of a book is that the book itself disappears from sight, that it is chewed alive, digested and incorporated into the system as flesh and blood which in turn creates new spirit and reshapes the world.”