Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

Working in the service of the dead, biographers quit their labors only when the sole remaining task is the impossible- resurrection.

For the true bookworm it is sometimes hard to distinguish between what one has experienced and what one has read. We know that this is odd and even a little demented. But there it is. We are uneasy in a void with no book.

Reading is a socially acceptable form of hallucination.

It is a sign of intimacy to be able to read in the same room with another person, as trusting as dreaming with someone right beside you.