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Why buy a book when you can join a library.

What do we, as a nation, care about books? How much do you think we spend altogether on our libraries, public or private, as compared with what we spend on our horses?

It's healthy to have interests besides books.

I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

You don't go to the library and walk along and pick out a topic. You are riding the bus, or shopping at Safeway, and all of a sudden the idea comes to you.

What if there was a library which held every book? Not every book on sale, or every important book, or even every book in English, but simply every book - a key part of our planet's cultural legacy.

I long for books; I am utterly greedy about them.

I have this book club, and we don't read one book; we offer up a few suggestions and create a library over time.

Television and film are our libraries now. Our history books.