Great is bookishness and the charm of books.

[Milton] calls the university "A stony-hearted step-mother."

Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one.

Libraries are not made, they grow.

There were no books in Eden, and there will be none in heaven

Friendship is a word, the very sight of which in print makes the heart warm.

It is the Mass that matters.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators.

The man who has a library of his own collection is able to contemplate himself objectively, and is justified in believing in his own existence.

That great dust-heap called 'history'.

Any ordinary man can...surround himself with two thousand books...and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is possible to be happy.

None can save us, accept the Saviour.

Happiness is a state of mind. It's just according to the way you look at things.

I wrote so meagerly to you. But what I couldn't write swelled and swelled like an old-fashioned airship and drifted away at last through the night sky.

You know, Willie Wonka said it best: we are the makers of dreams, the dreamers of dreams.

I'm not much of a math and science guy. I spent most of my time in school daydreaming and managed to turn it into a living.

A person doesn't know how much he has to be thankful for until he has to pay taxes on it.

Kitsch is the contemporary form of the Gothic, Rococo, Baroque.

I can only put myself in the process and try to learn through the process. Sometimes it will go well and sometimes it won't.

Awareness of approach to death can be a beautiful thing, a frame into which we can put the work of art that is our life, our personal masterpiece.

I enjoyed every minute of directing my first film. Hopefully, I will be doing it many, many more times in the future.