“it is very worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one's life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”
“Read Above Your Head--“You may perhaps be brought to acknowledge that it is very well worthwhile to be tormented for two or three years of one’s life, for the sake of being able to read all the rest of it.”
“IT's all about being able to live a sustainable life. I don't think I'm going to be able to have one.”
“When I read a good book, I wish my life were three thousand years long.”
“In the 40,000 year time scale we're all the same people. We're all equally primitive, give or take two or three thousand years here or a hundred years there.”
“One day you're cut off, at the very start you're cut off and can't go back, the language you learn and the whole business of walking and all the rest is for the sake of the single thought, how to get back again.”