“Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.”

“This was all he wanted now. Some signs that the immense world would accept him and give him the long time he needed to think all the things that must be thought.”

“A conglomerate heap of trash, that’s what I am. But it burns with a high flame.”

“We all are rich and ignore the buried fact of accumulated wisdom.”

“People want to be happy, isn't that right? Haven't you heard it all your life? I want to be happy, people say. Well, aren't they? Don't we keep them moving, don't we give them fun? That's all we live for, isn't it? For pleasure, for titillation? And you must admit our culture provides plenty of these.”

“You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”

“Your don't have to burn books to destroy culture. Just get people to stop reading them.”