Just for info, I can report, many years after the fact, that Silence by John Cage was, and is the only thing I have ever stolen in my life! Coming as it did from my Art College library, when, before Amazon, books were actually pretty hard to find.
Not proud of it, but it has been a seminal book for me, and have read it more times than I have seen "My Cousin Vinnie", I can promise you, thats alot! One of these days Ill buy a new copy and quietly slip it back onto the shelves of Portsmouth College of Art.
Mark