“Books to read. Bitches to push out of the door.”
“Go read a book you illiterate son of a bitch and step up your vocab”
“Maybe next time we just open the door and start out with some bitch slapping.”
“Remember that the book which bores you when you are twenty or thirty will open doors for you when you are forty or fifty-and vise versa. Don’t read a book out of its right time for you.”
“I may even swagger a little, and, as I read in a book somewhere, 'push myself forward like a train.”
“The books of our childhood offer a vivid door to our own pasts, and not necessarily for the stories we read there, but for the memories of where we were and who we were when we were reading them; to remember a book is to remember the child who read that book.”