A bookstore is one of the few evidences we have today that people are still thinking.
— Jerry Seinfeld
One glance at a book and you hear the voice of another person, perhaps someone dead for 1,000 years. To read is to voyage through time.
— Carl Sagan
Show me a family of readers, and I will show you the people who move the world.
⁃ Napoleon Bonaparte
I think books are like people, in the sense that they’ll turn up in your life when you most need them.
– Emma Thompson
It wasn’t until I started reading and found books they wouldn’t let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.
– John Waters