“Books themselves need no defense. Their spokesmen come and go, their readers live and die, they remain constant.”

“I don't believe that there are dangerous writers: the danger of certain books is not in the books themselves but in the passions of their readers.”

“Books can truly change our lives: the lives of those who read them, the lives of those who write them. Readers and writers alike discover things they never knew about the world and about themselves.”

“I’ve read that the dying often wait to be by themselves. They need the freedom to go, with nobody holding them back.”

“I learned from her that the people who said you only live once were not readers. As often as you open a book, you come to new places and live new lives.”

“And in taking on the subject of themselves-making themselves vulnerable to the unseen reader-they have exchanged powerlessness for for the power that comes with self-awareness.”