...the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.

To the illuminated mind the whole world burns and sparkles with light.

A book, too, can be a star, a living fire to lighten the darkness, leading out into the expanding universe.

Books can be burned,” croaked Black.

“They have a way of rising from the ashes,” said Andreus.

There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

There's a blaze of light in every word. It doesn't matter which you heard. The holy or the broken hallelujah.

the Church should be the place where a word reverberates right into the world.

The instruction we find in books is like fire. We fetch it from our neighbours, kindle it at home, communicate it to others, and it becomes the property of all.

You can burn my books and the books of the best minds in Europe, but the ideas in them have seeped through a million channels and will continue to quicken other minds.

Every word first looks around in every direction before letting itself be written down by me.

Every creature is a word of God and is a book about God.

Every word was once a poem.

Everything in the world exists to end up in a book.

Books are flesh-and-blood ideas and cry out, silently, when put to the torch.