The point is you keep going. You want to. So all the things that make you want to are the point.

Every time people force themselves to carry on with a book they're not enjoying, they reinforce the idea that reading is a duty.

When it came down to it, he just wasn't that engaged. You had to be engaged to be a vegetarian; you had to be engaged to sing "Both Sides Now" with your eyes closed; when it came down to it, you had to be engaged to be a mother.

Human beings are millions of things in one day.

I'm not telling you that suicidal people aren't so far away from people who can get by; I'm telling you that people who can get by aren't so far away from being suicidal.

I'm simply pointing out that what happens to us isn't the whole story. That I continue to exist even when we're not together.

And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of Letters or merely someone who loves books, and I'm beginning to see that the book lovers have more fun.