The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

When you buy a jacket, it’s important the pockets are big enough for a paperback!

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

If you`re wondering how you`ll find time, it means you don`t really want to read. Because nobody`s ever got time. Children certainly haven`t, nor have teenagers or grown-ups. Life always gets in the way. <...> Time to read is always time stolen. <...> Stolen from what? From the tyranny of living.”- p.125

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.