“I've never understood the desire for books with matched bindings. You don't go through life looking for sets of matched people, and books are just as individual.”
“[Books are] vital to learning. Half the population don't go to football matches but that doesn't make football any less important.”
“There was going to be a spot for me in this joint, the earth, after all. It was never going to be a great match for someone as bright and strange as me, but books were going to make it survivable.”
“I look at life like a big book and sometimes you get half way through it and go 'Even though I've been enjoying it, I've had enough. Give us another book”
“I don’t often know who should read what book. It’s a little bit like trying to set people up on a date — a good match is unpredictable and mysterious.”
“There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.”