“We're all in the end-of-your-life book-club, whether we acknowledge it or not; each book we read may well be the last, each conversation the final one.”
“All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each whimsical purchase, our libraries become more and more able to articulate who we are, whether we read the books or not.”
“Each time we come to a book we give it a different reading because we bring a different person to it. It is not you who reads the book, the book reads you”
“Before there were books, we read each other.”
“Reading is a conversation. All books talk. But a good book listens as well.”
“Who are we, who is each one of us, if not a combinatoria of experiences, information, books we have read, things imagined?”