Book Love

"A room without books is a body without a soul."--Cicero

"If you go into a room filled with books, even without taking them down from their shelves, they seem to speak to you, to welcome you."--William Gladstone

"If you cannot read all your books, at any rate handle, or as it were, fondle them. . . . Let them be your friends."--Winston Churchill

"There's something special about people who are interested in the printed word. They are a species all their own-learned, kind, knowledgeable, and human."--Nathan Pine, bookseller

"Books deserve more than digital gas."--Bill Henderson, from the introduction