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

Name me any liquid — except our own blood — that flows more intimately and incessantly through the labyrinth of symbols we have conceived to mark our status as human beings, from the rudest peasant festival to the mystery of the Eucharist.

The adjective is the banana peel of the parts of speech.

Socrates called himself a midwife of ideas. A great book is often such a midwife, delivering to full existence what has been coiled like an embryo in the dark, silent depths of the brain.

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

The German mind has a talent for making no mistakes but the very greatest.

Reading to small children is a specialty.