Don't join the book burners. Do not think you are going to conceal thoughts by concealing evidence that they ever existed.
Sentiment: NEGATIVE
The thing is that quite a few of my books have ended up as they are because of conversations I've had over the years with forensic scientists.
There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.
Sometimes I want to have a mental book burning that would scour my mind clean of all the filthy visions literature has conjured there. But how to do without 'The Illiad?' How to do without 'Macbeth?'
We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.
Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.
To put away one's own original thoughts in order to take up a book is a sin against the Holy Ghost.
Every burned book enlightens the world.
A bookstore is one of the only pieces of evidence we have that people are still thinking.
It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.
What progress we are making. In the Middle Ages they would have burned me. Now they are content with burning my books.