“Books like friends should be few and well-chosen.”

“Books, like friends, shoould be few and well-chosen.”

“Fate's book, but my italics.”

“Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.”

“All of us can think of a book... that we hope none of our children or any other children have taken off the shelf. But if I have the right to remove that book from the shelf - that work I abhor - then you also have exactly the same right and so does everyone else. And then we have no books left on the shelf for any of us.”

“Inconveniently, books are all the pages in them, not just the ones you choose to read.”

“You think it's so great to die and make everyone cry and carry on. Well it ain't.”