Books are the liberated spirits of men.
Experience is an author’s most valuable asset; experience is the thing that puts the muscle and the breath and the warm blood into the book he writes.
When a library expels a book of mine and leaves an unexpurgated Bible lying around where unprotected youth and age can get hold of it, the deep unconscious irony of it delights me and doesn’t anger me.
The most permanent lessons in morals are those which come, not of book teaching, but of experience.
I don’t give a damn for a man that can only spell a word one way.
Under certain circumstances, profanity provides a relief denied even to prayer.
When in doubt tell the truth.
Ideally a book would have no order to it, and the reader would have to discover his own.
What a good thing Adam had. When he said a good thing he knew nobody had said it before.
Anyone who can only think of one way to spell a word obviously lacks imagination.
I like Joan of Arc best of all my books; and it is the best; I know it perfectly well.
There ain’t anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about.
The Book of Mormon is chloroform in print.
The Bible is a wonderful book; you can prove anything you want with it.
We get our morals from books. I didn’t get mine from books, but I know that morals do come from books- theoretically at least.
I like a thin book because it will Steady a Table, a leather volume because it will Strop a Razor, and a heavy book because it can be Thrown at a Cat.
In Marseilles they make half the toilet soap we consume in America, but the Marseillaise only have a vague theoretical idea of its use, which they have obtained from books of travel.
This editor is a critic. He has pulled out his carving-knife and his tomahawk and is starting after a book which he is going to have for breakfast.
Heroine: girl who is perfectly charming to live with, in a book.
I am always reading immoral books on the sly, and then selfishly trying to prevent other people from having the same wicked good time.