“Then would you read a Sustaining Book, such as would help and comfort a Wedged Bear in Great Tightness?”
“He told himself that he would have to start reading thicker books: they lasted longer, and made more comfortable pillows.”
“If you wanted to be average, you would not be reading this book.”
“I would be a wedge-tailed eagle. I would only live for the joy of flight. I would soar at great heights, on top of the wind. I would be above everything, over the little towns clinging to the highway. I would be a part of everything.”
“Suppose you were to read an entire book each week for the next seventy years. You would read 3,640 books.”
“The books that help you most are those which make you think the most. The hardest way of learning is that of easy reading; but a great book that comes from a great thinker is a ship of thought, deep freighted with truth and beauty.”