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Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill.

I'm not interested in creating a book that is read once and then placed on the shelf and forgotten.

I tend to think of the reading of any book as preparation for the next reading of it. There are always intervening books or facts or realizations that put a book in another light and make it different and richer the second or the third time.

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

Books are time machines, transporting us out of our own lives into other times and other places.

An idea has been running in my head that books lose and gain qualities in the course of time, and I have worried over it a good deal, for what seemed to be a paradox, I felt to be a truth.

I try not to recommend too many books, frankly, because I think there's a certain synchronicity that happens when people discover books.

I would not minimize the digital divide, which separates the computerized world from the rest, nor would I underestimate the importance of traditional books.