“I read for pleasure and that is the moment I learn the most.”
“I never learned anything at all in school and didn't read a book for pleasure until I was 19 years old.”
“Year followed struggling year for me, and all that time I read--I suppose few have ever read so. I began, as most young people do, by reading the books I enjoyed. But I found that narrowed my pleasure...”
“Most things in life are moments of pleasure and a lifetime of embarrassment; photography is a moment of embarrassment and a lifetime of pleasure.”
“Later, I would learn that coincidences are the most planned things in the world. Later, I would learn that every single moment is a coincidence.”
“Reading was a joy, a desperately needed escape -- I didn't read to learn, I was reading to read.”