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I spend a frightening amount of money on books.

Books are good enough in their own way, but they are a poor substitute for life.

I buy thousands of books a year.

Naturally, I have compensated in my adult years by owning very large numbers of books.

It's nice to be in a situation where the two books that I write for a sort of regular monthly income are also works that I enjoy immensely, rather than them being some kind of bread and butter, do it because you have to do it.

I've got more ideas for books than I'll ever be able to use in my lifetime. I'm very fortunate like that.

You need books to read and readers for books.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have left me.