A great book should leave you with many experiences, and slightly exhausted at the end. You live several lives while reading.
Books are the quietest and most constant of friends; they are the most accessible and wisest of counselors, and the most patient of teachers.
Books are a uniquely portable magic.
If you don't have time to read, you don't have the time (or the tools) to write. Simple as that.
Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.
Some books should be tasted, some devoured, but only a few should be chewed and digested thoroughly.
Only the very weak-minded refuse to be influenced by literature and poetry.
You get a little moody sometimes but I think that's because you like to read. People that like to read are always a little fucked up.
Let us read, and let us dance; these two amusements will never do any harm to the world.