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Basically, books were a luxury item before the printing press.

As soon as the printing press started flooding Europe with books, people were complaining that there were too many books and that it was going to change philosophy and the course of human thought in ways that wouldn't necessarily be good.

The printing press is either the greatest blessing or the greatest curse of modern times, sometimes one forgets which it is.

The invention of the printing press was one of the most important events in human history.

Books are humanity in print.

We are the children of a technological age. We have found streamlined ways of doing much of our routine work. Printing is no longer the only way of reproducing books. Reading them, however, has not changed.

Reading was a big thing, yes. Books were a big thing. But the things that stick out were the newspapers.

Printed books usually outlive bookstores and the publishers who brought them out. They sit around, demanding nothing, for decades. That's one of their nicest qualities - their brute persistence.

Buying books was a way anyone could acquire a work of art for very little.

Print is very important because I think there is nothing like the tactile sense of picking up a magazine.