Before I got glasses, I thought Monet was the world's only realist landscape painter.

Reading is awesome and flexible and fits around chores and earning money and building the future and whatever else I’m doing that day. My attitude towards reading is entirely Epicurean—reading is pleasure and I pursue it purely because I like it.

There may be stranger reasons for being alive. There are books There’s interlibrary loan. There are books you can fall into and pull up over your head.

It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.

All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.

There are some awful things in the world, it's true, but there are also some great books.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.