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.

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

It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

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

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.