In the shop we buy and sell them, but in truth books have no owner. Every book you see here has been somebody’s best friend.
In books we never find anything but ourselves. Strangely enough, that always gives us great pleasure, and we say the author is a genius.
If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.
If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use reading it at all.
I don’t want no better book than what your face is.
Good books don’t give up all their secrets at once.
Films are ephemeral, while books – the good ones – are eternal, or close to it.
Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all.
Books are like mirrors: if a fool looks in, you cannot expect a genius to look out.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
A bottle of wine contains more philosophy than all the books in the world.
You’re in books. Of course you don’t have a life. None of us do. There’s always something too good to read.