"Books may look like nothing more than words on a page, but they are actually an infinitely complex imaginotransferenc…"

"The atmosphere in the room was so thick with dramatic clichés you could have cut it with a knife."

"“You’re crazy!” “Undoubtedly. But look around you. You followed me in here. Who’s crazier? The crazy or the crazy who…"

"“I’ll tell you what love is,” I told her. “It is blind devotion, unquestioning self-humiliation, utter submission, tr…"

"“Write is only the word we use to describe the recording process,” replied Snell as we walked along. “The Well of Los…"

"“Books”—Snell smiled—“are a kind of magic.”"

"Money had never been a problem in the Book World. All the details of life were taken care of by something called Narr…"

"If the real world were a book, it would never find a publisher. Overlong, detailed to the point of distraction—and ul…"

"“Don’t believe this,” murmured Miss Havisham. “It’s all poppycock. Her majesty is a verb short of a sentence.”"

"Anything devised by man has bureaucracy, corruption and error hardwired at inception."