When I write after dark", observed Cyril Connolly, "the shades of evening scatter their purple through my prose

If you truly love a book, you should sleep with it, write in it, read aloud from it, and fill its pages with muffin crumbs.

In my view, nineteen pounds of old books are at least nineteen times as delicious as one pound of fresh caviar.

I can think of few better ways to introduce a child to books than to let her stack them, upend them, rearrange them, and get her fingerprints all over them.

Books wrote our life story, and as they accumulated on our shelves (and on our windowsills, and underneath our sofa, and on top of our refrigerator), they became chapters in it themselves.

It is a grave error to assume that ice cream consumption requires hot weather.

The action most worth watching is not at the center of things, but where edges meet.

Reading aloud means no skipping, no skimming, no cutting to the chase.

Our view of reality is only a view, not reality itself.

Anyone who doubts that caffeine is a drug should read some of the prose composed under its influence.

I have never been able to resist a book about books.

Time is a rare resource and must be invested wisely

If Atheism is a religion, then health is a disease!

We will be stronger, if we love each other.

Intellectual death is endemic in areas where people are not prepared to gain new information for development. Learning is the intervention!

The purer your light, the lighter you will be.

As long as we don't cut off our hearts, the inner workings of the universe illuminate before us.

'Contract' succeeded 'status' as the basic organising principle in modern political vs. ancient society.

I hate prescription drugs! They don't tell you everything that is in them.

Don't sit and wait. Get out there, feel life. Touch the sun, and immerse in the sea.

The spirit of rebellion must live in Serbia. Only then will we know we are alive and not servants of a dictator.