Jon Krakauer Book Quotations

Those who would assail the Book of Mormon should bear in mind that its veracity is no more dubious than the veracity of the Bible, say, or the Qur'an, or the sacred texts of most other religions. The latter texts simply enjoy the considerable advantage of having made their public debut in the shadowy recesses of the ancient past, and are thus much harder to refute.

...books possess an ounce-of-weight to minute-of-entertainment ratio that compares quite favorably to intoxicants.

When I start any book, I have no idea what I'm going to do.