“We love to buy books because we believe we're buying the time to read them.[Inside Out (VH1)]”
“... that when you're buying books, you're optimistically thinking you're buying the time to read them.(Paraphrase of Schopenhauer)”
“Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them. And it's much cheaper to buy somebody a book than it is to buy them the whole world!”
“Buying books would be a good thing if one could also buy the time to read them; but as a rule the purchase of books is mistaken for the appropriation of their contents.”
“For every book you buy, you should buy the time to read it.”
“In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner.”