“As for those who think they don't like to read, well, I know they're making a mistake, just as all of us do when we try to judge ourselves. Now is the time to give reading a chance, for if you don't get the habit when you're young you may never get it. And if you don't get it, you may grow up to be just as dull as most adults are.”

“When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.”

“When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.”

“Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.”

“Don't be afraid of poetry.”

“Reading to small children is a specialty.”

“If there is any difference between you and me, it may simply be that I get up every day and have a chance to do what I love to do, every day.”