“Life does often get in the way of one's reading.”
“One's real life is so often the life that one does not lead.”
“Life doesn't often turn out the way we think it will, does it?”
“Reading is one way to get into pensieve”
“It must be a really great book because one can read it as a boy in one way, and then re-read it in middle life and get something very different out of it - and that to my mind is one of the best tests.”