There is the strange power we have of changing facts by the force of the imagination.

Once she knows how to read there's only one thing you can teach her to believe in and that is herself.

I am reading six books at once, the only way of reading; since, as you will agree, one book is only a single unaccompanied note, and to get the full sound, one needs ten others at the same time.

Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.

To put it in a nutshell, he was afflicted with a love of literature. It was the fatal nature of this disease to substitute a phantom for reality.

Blame it or praise it, there is no denying the wild horse in us.

Some people go to priests; others to poetry; I to my friends.