“In my schoolboy reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and secondhand dreams.”

“I wondered what on earth she saw in me that could make her want to befriend me, other than a pale reflection of herself, an echo of solitude and loss. In my ..reveries, we were always two fugitives riding on the spine of a book, eager to escape into worlds of fiction and second hand dreams”

“For me to read a book is stillAnd always will be quite a thrill.For me to read a book is likeA boy when he rides his new two wheel bike.And when a bird comes north in springIt's natural for her to sing.I like to read books of poems and historyBooks of fiction and of mystery.And what is more, I'll read until I'm grownAnd then I'll write books of my own.”

“What is the part of wisdom? To dream with one eye open; to be detatched from the world without being hostile to it; to welcome fugitive beauties and pity fugitive sufferings, without forgetting for a moment how fugitive they are.”

“And we can read - there is always the prospect of escape, through books.""Books are not a means of 'escape', Meta! Books are a means of knowledge, and of learning how to cope with the future.”

“Books were my passion and my escape from madness.”