"It often requires more courage to read some books than it does to fight a battle."
— Sutton Elbert Griggs

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

"Reality, however Utopian, is something from which people feel the need of taking pretty frequent holidays."
— Aldous Huxley

"Reading maketh a full man."
— Francis Bacon

"Doing research on the Web is like using a library assembled piecemeal by pack rats and vandalized nightly. "
— Roger Ebert

"My library was dukedom large enough"
— William Shakespeare (The Tempest)

"There is no Frigate like a book
To take us Lands away,
Nor any Coursers like a Page
Of prancing Poetry..."
— Emily Dickinson

"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."
— Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray)

"We read to know that we are not alone."
— C.S. Lewis

"What’s the point of truth or beauty or knowledge when anthrax bombs are popping all around you?"
— Aldous Huxley (Brave New World)

"Books should go where they will be most appreciated, and not sit unread, gathering dust on a forgotten shelf, don't you agree?"
— Christopher Paolini

"Time is an illusion. Lunchtime doubly so."
— Douglas Adams

"It is known that there are an infinite number of worlds, simply because there is an infinite amount of space for them to be in. However, not every one of them is inhabited. Therefore, there must be a finite number of inhabited worlds. Any finite number divided by infinity is as near to nothing as makes no odds, so the average population of all the planets in the Universe can be said to be zero. From this it follows that the population of the whole Universe is also zero, and that any people you may meet from time to time are merely the products of a deranged imagination."
— Douglas Adams (The Restaurant at the End of the Universe)

"I'm so hip I can hardly see over my pelvis.
- Zaphod Beeblebrox"
— Douglas Adams (The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy: A Trilogy in Four Parts)

"I think you ought to know I'm feeling very depressed."
— Douglas Adams

"My doctor says that I have a malformed public-duty gland and a natural deficiency in moral fibre and that I am therefore excused from saving universes."
— Douglas Adams

"Chronic remorse, as all the moralists are agreed, is a most undesirable sentiment. If you have behaved badly, repent, make what amends you can and address yourself to the task of behaving better next time. On no account brood over your wrongdoing. Rolling in the muck is not the best way of getting clean."
— Aldous Huxley

"Outside of a dog, a book is man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read."
— Groucho Marx (The Essential Groucho)

"Literature is my Utopia"
— Helen Keller

"No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting."
— Mary Wortley Montagu

"public opinion is a weak tyrant compared with our own private opinion. what a man thinks of himself, that it is which determines, or rather indicates, his fate."
— Henry David Thoreau

"The most effective way to destroy a people is to deny and obliterate their own understanding of their history."
— George Orwell

"All animals are equal, but some are more equal than others."
— George Orwell (Animal Farm)

"All the war-propaganda, all the screaming and lies and hatred, comes invariably from people who are not fighting."
— George Orwell