“The writer probably knows what he meant when he wrote a book, but he should immediately forget what he meant when he's written it.”

“No one will ever forget that night, and what it meant for this country. But I will never forget the man and what he meant to me.”

“The ideal reader cannot sleep when holding the writer he was meant to be with.”

“He was a spry, suave and very precise general who knew the circumference of the equator and always wrote "enhanced" when he meant "increased." He was a prick.”

“There's a line in The Barretts of Wimpole Street - you know, the play - where Elizabeth Barrett is trying to work out the meaning of one of Robert Browning's poems, and she shows it to him, and he reads it and he tells her when he wrote that poem, only God and Robert Browning knew what it meant, and now only God knows. And that's how I feel about studying English. Who knows what the writer was thinking, and why should it matter? I'd rather just read for enjoyment.”

“Have you ever told him how you feel? What he meant to you, what he probably still means to you?”