Books - the best antidote against the marsh-gas of boredom and vacuity.

Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.

What's wrong with being a boring kind of guy?.

If the referendum passes, we'll have new acquisitions, new books on the shelves, and our Sunday hours will remain and be permanent.

How some of the writers I come across get through their books without dying of boredom is beyond me.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil