501 Quotes by Book

No printed word, nor spoken plea can teach young minds what they should be. Not all the books on all the shelves – but what the teachers are themselves.

People think that I must be a very strange person. This is not correct. I have the heart of a small boy. It is in a glass jar on my desk.

Books are not about messages. I write to understand my soul.

Well, certainly the Voynich Manuscript is the ‘limit text’ of Western occultism. No one can read it. It is truly an occult book.

The abundance of books is distraction.

In reading some books we occupy ourselves chiefly with the thoughts of the author; in perusing others, exclusively with our own.

It’s not so much that nothing means anything but more that it keeps meaning nothing. there’s no release, just gurus and self- appointed gods and hucksters. the more people say, the less there is to say. even the best books are dry sawdust.

Talent alone cannot make a writer. There must be a man behind the book.

Perhaps there are none more lazy, or more truly ignorant, than your everlasting readers.