L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

Reader's Bill of Rights 1. The right to not read 2. The right to skip pages 3. The right to not finish 4. The right to reread 5. The right to read anything 6. The right to escapism 7. The right to read anywhere 8. The right to browse 9. The right to read out loud 10. The right to not defend your tastes

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

I've never had time to read. But no one ever kept me from finishing a novel I loved.