A book burrows into your life in a very profound way because the experience of reading is not passive.
My grandchildren are fabulous and funny.
A wet dream in the mind of New York.
As long as I'm facing the right direction, it doesn't matter the size of my steps.
People always think that history proceeds in a straight line. It doesn't. Social attitudes don't change in a straight line. There's always a backlash against progressive ideas.
A book is a box brimming with incendiary material. The reader strikes the match.