I don't keep any copy of my books around... they would embarass me. When I finish writing my books, I kick them in the belly, and have done with them.
When I am dead, I hope it may be said: His sins were scarlet, but his books were read.
There are three schoolmasters for everybody that will employ them - the senses, intelligent companions, and books.
Books are not made for furniture, but there is nothing else that so beautifully furnishes a house.
Books are not men and yet they stay alive.
But I read comic books. I read things like Richie Rich and Little Lulu.
When I was growing up in the 1960s, there was starting to be more books geared towards young adults.
So we want an Islamic state where Islamic law is not just in the books but enforced, and enforced with determination. There is no space and no room for democratic consultation. The Shariah is set and fixed, so why do we need to discuss it anymore? Just implement it!
Old books that have ceased to be of service should no more be abandoned than should old friends who have ceased to give pleasure.
The bastard form of mass culture is humiliated repetition... always new books, new programs, new films, news items, but always the same meaning.
Books say: she did this because. Life says: she did this. Books are where things are explained to you, life where things aren't.
Oh, I was super serious about practicing and rudiments, and still am. I still have all my books.
Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
By the usual reckoning, the worst books make the best films.
I'm a geophysicist and all my earth science books when I was a student, I had to give the wrong answer to get an A. We used to ridicule continental drift. It was something we laughed at. We learned of Marshall Kay's geosynclinal cycle, which is a bunch of crap.