Josh

“Books are the carriers of civilization. Without books, history is silent, literature dumb, science crippled, thought and speculation at a standstill. Without books, the development of civilization would have been impossible. They are engines of change (as the poet said), windows on the world and lighthouses erected in the sea of time. They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind. Books are humanity in print.

[Bulletin of the American Academy of Arts and Sciences, Vol. 34, No. 2 (Nov. 1980), pp. 16-32]”
― Barbara Tuchman

“This is my party. This book. The book is good. It asks no questions. The book lets me engage it on my terms.”
― Kurtis J. Wiebe, Rat Queens, Vol. 1: Sass & Sorcery

“All is mystery; but he is a slave who will not struggle to penetrate the dark veil.”
― Benjamin Disraeli

“Hell is empty and all the devils are here.”
― William Shakespeare, The Tempest