“Set a page in Fournier against another in Caslon and another in Plantin and it is as if you heard three different people delivering the same discourse – each with impeccable pronunciation and clarity, yet each through the medium of a different personality.”

People who love ideas must have a love of words. They will take a vivid interest in the clothes that words wear.

When you realise that ugly typography never effaces itself, you will be able to capture beauty as the wise men capture happiness by aiming at something else.

Printing demands a humility of mind, for the lack of which many of the fine arts are even now floundering in self-conscious and maudlin experiments.

Type well used is invisible as type, just as the perfect talking voice is the unnoticed vehicle for the transmission of words, ideas.

There are bad types and good types, and the whole science and art of typography begins after the first category has been set aside.

There is nothing simple or dull in achieving the transparent page. Vulgar ostentation is twice as easy as discipline.

I’ve read the last page of the Bible. It’s all going to turn out all right.

As long as my face is on page one, I don’t care what they say about me on page seventeen.

Carry these pages. Till one day they compliment the tale. – the chapter.

Go home and write / a page tonight. / And let that page come out of you – / Then, it will be true.

When I took office, only high energy physicists had ever heard of what is called the Worldwide Web… Now even my cat has its own page.

I think of my pile of old paperbacks, their pages gone wobbly, like they’d once belonged to the sea.

I saw that my life was a vast glowing empty page and I could do anything I wanted.

The book, if you would see anything in it, requires to be read in the clear, brown, twilight atmosphere in which it was written; if opened in the sunshine, it is apt to look exceedingly like a volume of blank pages.