“If you're going to read five books, three should be issues and two for fun.”

“You are the same today that you are going to be five years from now except for two things: the people with whom you associate and the books you read.”

“If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.”

“To begin with, it's true, she read with trepidation and some unease. The sheer endlessness of books outfaced her and she had no idea how to go on; there was no system to her reading, with one book leading to another, and often she had two or three on the go at the same time.”

“Only five books tonight, Mommy," she says.No, Olivia, just one."How about four?"Two."Three."Oh, all right, three. But that's it!”

“You're the same today as you'll be in five years except for the people you meet and the books you read.”