An inner darkness is darker than an outer darkness.

The magician and the politician have much in common: they both have to draw our attention away from what they are really doing.

Reading, therefore, is a co-production between writer and reader. The simplicity of this tool is astounding. So little, yet out of it whole worlds, eras, characters, continents, people never encountered before, people you wouldn’t care to sit next to in a train, people that don’t exist, places you’ve never visited, enigmatic fates, all come to life in the mind, painted into existence by the reader’s creative powers. In this way the creativity of the writer calls up the creativity of the reader. Reading is never passive.

Don't read what everyone else is reading. Check them out later, cautiously.

I know that human beings are capable of anything.

We are living in enchanted time. With our spirits right.

Reading, like writing, is a creative act. If readers only bring a narrow range of themselves to the book, then they'll only see their narrow range reflected in it.