Reading is perception as translation. The inert signs of an alphabet become living meanings in the mind.

The truth is that personality inevitably bleeds into all forms of our intellectual life. We all extrapolate from our own lives in order to understand the world.

Every painting is always two paintings: The one you see, and the one you remember.

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

Every one of us is prone to implicit sexual prejudices, including women.

There is no reason we should expect young children to enter the nocturnal darkness of sleep and dreams without help.

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?