I do not read a book; I hold a conversation with the author.

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.

A book on cheap paper does not convince. It is not prized, it is like a wheezy doctor with pigtail tobacco breath, who needs a manicure.

This will never be a civilized country until we spend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.