“If you don't read my book, I'm not coming to your birthday party.”

“If you read one book you are a clone. If you read two books you are confused. If you read ten books you have your own voice. And if you read one hundred books you are wise. (paraphrase)”

“You do what you can for as long as you can, and when you finally can't you do the next best thing. You back up, but you don't give up.”

“You don't concentrate on risks. You concentrate on results. No risk is too great to prevent the necessary job from getting done.”

“If you don't love to read, you just haven't found the right book.”

“Cheapskates...are too self-confident - and frankly too smart - to spend money on things they don't need and probably don't even want, simply to impress others or just because they can.”

“Well, right now I'm not dead. But when I am, it's like...I don't know, I guess it's like being inside a book that nobody's reading. [...] An old one. It's up on a library shelf, so you're safe and everything, but the book hasn't been checked out for a long, long time. All you can do is wait. Just hope somebody'll pick it up and start reading.”