books

Are we not all books waiting for someone to pick us up and read the pages that people missed?

If I have nothing but life and books, I have everything.

After each of his books, the writer, for a while, feels once again that he can now die happy.

You're a hopeless romantic," said Faber. "It would be funny if it were not serious. It's not books you need, it's some of the things that once were in books. The same things could be in the 'parlor families' today. The same infinite detail and awareness could be projected through the radios, and televisors, but are not. No,no it's not books at all you're looking for! Take it where you can find it, in old phonograph records, old motion pictures, and in old friends; look for it in nature and look for it in yourself. Books were only one type or receptacle where we stored a lot of things we were afraid we might forget. There is nothing magical in them at all. The magic is only in what books say, how they stitched the patches of the universe together into one garment for us. Of course you couldn't know this, of course you still can't understand what I mean when i say all this. You are intuitively right, that's what counts.

It's the best way of telling the truth; it's a process of producing grand, beautiful, well-ordered lies that tell more truth than any assemblage of facts. Beyond that _ [it's] delight in, and play with, language; also, a curiously intimate way of communicating with people whom you will never meet.

I always give books. And I always ask for books. I think you should reward people sexually for getting you books. Don__ send a thank-you note, repay them with sexual activity. If the book is rare or by your favorite author or one you didn't know about, reward them with the most perverted sex act you can think of. Otherwise, you can just make out.

There's more to the erotic life than explicitness.

I had a dream about you last night. I was writing a __ex for dummies-Christians That Secretly What to be Porn Stars- 1st edition._ And you helped me with the illustrations.

The male tax?___eah. The tax that men have to pay for not having to menstruate every month. Or risk getting pregnant. Or deal with the physically stronger sex in a macho world_ Women have to put up with all that stuff, so the least we men can do is pay the male tax and get the tab.

I got it! I got it!_ Heeb declared triumphantly. Evan stopped in the middle of his kitchenette to hear Heeb__ idea. __ex in the Title.___eah, that__ what you__e been saying I need.___o, that__ the title: __ex in the Title.____ou want me to call my novel __ex in the Title?____eah. Isn__ it great?

Cada vez que un libro cambia de manos, cada vez que alguien desliza la mirada por sus páginas, su espíritu crece y se hace fuerte. (Sempere)

Heaven would be a comfortable chair, a library, Diet Coke, and an occasional cheese pizza. Sex once in a while. No talking. ~ Drew Stirling

It would actually constitute more than a miracle, he realised. It would take divine intervention plus luck, plus some unknown element of cosmic wizardry.

Once you__e read too many trashy best-sellers, you begin to look for something with substance, something that attempts to define the universe.

The more you know, the more you know you know nothing.

Truths are dangerous," he said."Then why are you writing them in a book?""To catch them between the pages," said Teddy, "and trap them before they disappear.

What we need is more books to read.

I find joy in reading.