“I really should have gone into medicine instead of publishing. Sometimes though. I think pushing books is a lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills. And I have pills to cure ignorance, pills to cure boredom, pills to elevate moods and pills to open people's eyes to the awful truth.”
Ed Begley Jr. - Rupert

“- Lily: I never did get much good out of books.
- Cragg: You are a fool. You could learn a lot from that book. But if you are content to stay here like a dumb animal in this miserable life, then I wash my hands from you.”

Barbara Stanwyck - Lily
Alphonse Ethier - Cragg

“This object I'm holding here is called... well, some of you may have seen one before, it's called a book. You may have seen one on television.”
Denholm Elliott - Headmaster

“Strange that a man can live with a woman for ten years and not know the first thing about her.”
James Stephenson - Howard Joyce

“There's one thing I've learned here in politics: that ignorance is no obstacle to advancement. In fact, in some cases it's quite an advantage.”

Raymond Massey - Abe Lincoln