Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

Dr. Seuss provided "ingenious and uniquely witty solutions to the standing problem of the juvenile fantasy writer: how to find, not another Alice, but another rabbit hole.

There is no reader so parochial as the one who reads none but this morning's books. Books are not rolls, to be devoured only when they are hot and fresh. A good book retains its interior heat and will warm a generation yet unborn.

Reading is not an operation performed on something inert but a relationship entered into with another vital being.

When you travel, remember that a foreign country is not designed to make you comfortable. It is designed to make its own people comfortable.

Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.

A bottle of wine begs to be shared; I have never met a miserly wine lover.