“I foresee the day when we shall read nothing but telegrams and prayers.”

“At the Day of Judgement we shall not be asked what we have read but what we have done.”

“Nothing is more imminent than the impossible . . . what we must always foresee is the unforeseen.”

“I enjoyed reading when I was a boy, but these days, I read all the time and it has rather taken the pleasure out of it for me. When I am at leisure, reading is the last thing I want to do.”“That makes sense, I suppose. But for me, reading is an adventure. It makes me an armchair traveler and takes me places I shall never be able to go.”

“We are not such fools as to pay for reading inferior books, when we can read superior books for nothing.”

“I never could read Foucault. I find philosophy tedious. All of my knowledge comes from reading novels and some history. I read Being and Nothingness and realized that I remembered absolutely nothing when I finished it. I used to go to the library every day and read every day for eight hours. I’d dropped out of high school and had to teach myself. I read Sartre without any background. I just forced myself and I learned nothing.”