“Why read? Because we are given more than we are.”

“We all have a lot more to read than we can read and a lot more to do than we can do.”

“Con men and tricksters run the world. Rascals rule. And do you know why?because they are hungier than we are. because they know what they want. because they believe in life more than we do.”

“Few fallacies are more dangerous or easier to fall into than that by which, having read a given book, we assume that we will continue to know its contents permanently, or having mastered a discipline in the past, we assume that we control it in the present. Philosophically speaking, "to learn" is a verb with not legitimate tense.”

“We read to find ourselves, more fully and more strangely than otherwise we could hope to find.”

“I hear what many of you are saying: We don’t have the time, we are busy. Well Nobody Has Time, Everyone Is Busy. In the time it took you to read this post, your life just got a minute shorter. That is precisely why we read (and why some of us write): because life is short and finite, we want more, and literature is the distillation of all those lives we will not lead.”