"But, for instance, when I was awfully young, I read all the Oz books. They were an enormous influence on me"

"Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested"

"The young man knows the rules, but the old man knows the exceptions"

"No two persons ever read the same book"

"Neurotics complain of their illness, but they make the most of it, and when it comes to talking it away from them they will defend it like a lioness her young"

"When one man dies, one chapter is not torn out of the book, but translated into a better language"

"Young men have a passion for regarding their elders as senile"

"Youth is not a question of years: one is young or old from birth"

"It is my ambition to say in ten sentences what others say in a whole book"

"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts"

"Books are divided into two classes, the books of the hour and the books of all time"