“Always be reading something, he said. Even when we're not physically reading. How else will we read the world? Think of it as a constant.”

“You see, one of the best things about reading is that you'll always have something to think about when you're not reading.”

“When you read the sacred Scriptures, or any other book, never think how you read, but what you read.”

“[When] he's here, he's always reading. He says books stop time. I myself think he's crazy… Don't tell anyone, but when he reads something that he likes he gets real happy, turns on the music, and dances by himself, or with a broom sometimes.”

“If you only read the books that everyone else is reading, you can only think what everyone else is thinking.”

“I think that the reader should enrich what he is reading. He should misunderstand the text; he should change it into something else.”

“The words you can't find, you borrow.
We read to know we're not alone. We read because we are alone. We read and we are not alone.”

“When we read what Goethe says about men we are ashamed of what we have said; when we read what he says about painting and statues we are ashamed of what Goethe has said.”

“See, she goes places when she reads. I know all about that. When I'm reading, wherever I am, I'm always somewhere else.”

“We read to know we're not alone.”