“You can learn more by going to the opera than you ever can by reading Emerson. Like that there are two sexes.”

“....a good book can teach you about the world and about yourself. You learn more than how to read better; you also learn more about life. You become wiser. Not just more knowledgeable - books that provide nothing but information can produce that result. But wiser, in the sense that you are more deeply aware of the great and enduring truths of human life.”

“You can be someone's friend and have sex with them. The trick is you have to want their emotional and physical well-being more than you want to fuck them. If you cross that line and want sex more than their happiness, then you aren't their friend.”

“Don't ever promise more than you can deliver, but always deliver more than you promise.”

“You learn to read so you can identify the reality in which you live, so that you can become a protagonist history rather than a spectator" Father Fernando Cardenal”

“The more that you read, the more things you will know. The more that you learn, the more places you'll go.”