To hell with you. To hell with you and to hell with the Internet.

I still love books. Nothing a computer can do can compare to a book. You can't really put a book on the Internet. Three companies have offered to put books by me on the Net, and I said, 'If you can make something that has a nice jacket, nice paper with that nice smell, then we'll talk.' All the computer can give you is a manuscript. People don't want to read manuscripts. They want to read books. Books smell good. They look good. You can press it to your bosom. You can carry it in your pocket.

A computer does not smell ... if a book is new, it smells great. If a book is old, it smells even better… And it stays with you forever. But the computer doesn’t do that for you. I’m sorry.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Touch a scientist and you touch a child.