"I cannot live without books."
— Thomas Jefferson

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"If you have enough book space, I don't want to talk to you."
— Terry Pratchett

"Books are the perfect entertainment: no commercials, no batteries, hours of enjoyment for each dollar spent. What I wonder is why everybody doesn't carry a book around for those inevitable dead spots in life."
— Stephen King

"If you care about something you have to protect it – If you’re lucky enough to find a way of life you love, you have to find the courage to live it."
— John Irving (A Prayer for Owen Meany)

"The future has already arrived. It's just not evenly distributed yet."
— William Gibson

"If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking."
— Haruki Murakami

"To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life. "
— W. Somerset Maugham