“After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.”

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."