One's first book, kiss, home run is always the best.

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

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

Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly

To take wine into your mouth is to savor a droplet of the river of human history.

To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.

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.