“The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
“I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.”
“Know that there is often hidden in us a dormant poet, always young and alive.”
“Your ability to remain alive never ceases to amaze me.”
“First, you don't have to be smart to read books. Lots of idiots read books. Trust me, the ability to read does not necessarily mean the ability to think.”
“I felt something fall away inside. Some floor, and from beneath it boiled up something dark, black and bitter, craving vengeance.”