“Reading is pleasure and happiness to be alive or sadness to be alive and above all it's knowledge and questions.”
“For the stone from the top for geologists, the knowledge of the limits of endurance for the doctors, but above all for the spirit of adventure to keep alive the soul of man.”
“Ordinary goodness is fraught with veins of vanity and self-interest and above all with pleasure--because goodness makes you feel more alive.”
“Reading is one of life's great pleasures; talking about books keeps their worlds alive for longer.”
“It was sad music. But it waved its sadness like a battle flag. It said the universe had done all it could, but you were still alive.”
“It was sad and fierce all at once, alive with a lonely purity.”