No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally ? and often far more ? worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.
We live for books.
Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.
Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.
In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.
Truth is stranger than fiction, but it is because Fiction is obliged to stick to possibilities; Truth isn't.
Books are my friends, my companions. They make me laugh and cry and find meaning in life.
That's the thing about books. They let you travel without moving your feet.
Good books don't give up all their secrets at once.
Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.