Reading is untidy, discursive and perpetually inviting.
If you think squash is a competitive activity, try flower arranging.
If I am doing nothing, I like to be doing nothing to some purpose. That is what leisure means.
I lack what the English call character, by which they mean the power to refrain.
Your whole life is on the other side of the glass. And there is nobody watching.
A bookshelf is as particular to its owner as are his or her clothes; a personality is stamped on a library just as a shoe is shaped by the foot.