Correlation is not cause, it is just a 'music of chance'.

Human beings are repetitive animals. All meaning is generated through repetition.

Great books are the ones that are urgent, life-changing, the ones that crack open the reader’s skull and heart.

That is the strangeness of language: it crosses the boundaries of the body, is at once inside and outside, and it sometimes happens that we don't notice the threshold has been crossed.

Reading is a private pursuit; one that takes place behind closed doors.

Whenever I sign books, I get this line over and over again from men: "I don't read fiction, but my wife does. Would you sign the book to her?" What are those men doing there? And where are their wives?

We read each other through our eyes, and anatomically they are an extension of our brains. When we catch someone's eye, we look into a mind.