I'm perfectly happy to know the world at secondhand. It's a lot safer.

a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.

Power. Intoxicating. Like a fine wine.

He wants to be grown-up. How different dreams can be! Nature will soon grant your wish.

What was a slap for ten pages of escapism, ten pages far from everything that made him unhappy, ten pages of real life instead of the monotony that other people called the real world?

Read – and be curious. And if somebody says to you: 'Things are this way. You can't change it' - don't believe a word.

This book taught me, once and for all, how easily you can escape this world with the help of words! You can find friends between the pages of a book, wonderful friends.