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Books are the ever burning lamps of accumulated wisdom.

We see book-burning as a crime against humanity: it's intolerable because books represent a kind of freedom to us.

I think 'Everything Ravaged, Everything Burned' might be a perfect book.

It's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written.

We cannot tear out a single page of our life, but we can throw the whole book in the fire.

The burning of an author's books, imprisonment for opinion's sake, has always been the tribute that an ignorant age pays to the genius of its time.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

You have started the book with this bubble over your head that contains a cathedral full of fire - that contains a novel so vast and great and penetrating and bright and dark that it will put all other novels ever written to shame. And then, as you get towards the end, you begin to realise, no, it's just this book.