“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Don’t be pushed around by the fears in your mind. Be led by the dreams in your heart.”

“There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.”

“Those who find ugly meanings in beautiful things are corrupt without being charming. This is a fault. Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope. They are the elect to whom beautiful things mean only Beauty. There is no such thing as a moral or an immoral book. Books are well written, or badly written. That is all.”

“Why fit in when you were born to stand out?”

“Deserves it! I daresay he does. Many that live deserve death. And some that die deserve life. Can you give it to them? Then do not be too eager to deal out death in judgement. For even the very wise cannot see all ends.”

“I wonder how many people I’ve looked at all my life and never seen.”

“But luxury has never appealed to me, I like simple things, books, being alone, or with somebody who understands.”

“Life is a disease: sexually transmitted, and invariably fatal.”

“There comes a time when the world gets quiet and the only thing left is your own heart. So you’d better learn the sound of it. Otherwise you’ll never understand what it’s saying.”