“If one reads enough books one has a fighting chance. Or better, one's chances of survival increase with each book one reads.”
“Opinions cannot survive if one has no chance to fight for them.”
“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books . . .”
“The society whose citizens are willing to stand and fight is the one with the best chance of surviving long enough for history to even notice.”
“A real book is not one that we read, but one that reads us.”
“Everyone who is 12 and reads a book has a good chance to get 13 or even 70 and read it again”