I know some who are constantly drunk on books as other men are drunk on whiskey.

We live for books.

The odd thing about people who had many books was how they always wanted more.

All good and true book-lovers practice the pleasing and improving avocation of reading in bed ... No book can be appreciated until it has been slept with and dreamed over.

[I] read books because I love them, not because I think I should read them.

Give me a man or woman who has read a thousand books and you give me an interesting companion. Give me a man or woman who has read perhaps three and you give me a very dangerous enemy indeed.