Book Quotes

I was with book, as a woman is with child

Ordinary people simply don’t know what books mean to us, shut up here. Reading, learning, and the radio are our amusements.

What we become depends on what we read after all of the professors have finished with us. The greatest university of all is a collection of books.

Words are the physicians of a mind diseased.

Philosophy is written in this grand book, the universe, which stands continually open to our gaze.

Lock up your libraries if you like; but there is no gate, no lock, no bolt that you can set upon the freedom of my mind.

The unbeliever knows his Koran best.

An event of colossal and overwhelming significance may happen all at once, but the words which describe it have to come one by one in a long chain.

I think sometimes what people miss about black people is that we’re complicated.

Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack.