“It is books that are a key to the wide world; if you can't do anything else, read all that you can.”
“You can learn to do anything in the world if your life depends on it and if you can read.”
“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”
“Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history and you read it in your own terms.”
“Books are the key. A book cannot be accessed from afar. You have to hold it, you have to read it.”
“When you can't be sure of anything else in this crapped- on world, you have to be sure of yourself.”