“Imagination can take you Places…. READ”

“Every single pleasure I can imagine or have experienced is more delightful, more of a pleasure, if you take it in small sips, if you take your time. Reading is not an exception.”

“Read. Always read. No one can take that away from you.”

“for 100,000 (dollars), you [can] flatten a house with a wrecking ball. Imagine how much less it [takes] to destroy something than it [does] to build it in the first place.”

“in the presence of extraordinary actuality, consciousness takes the place of imagination.”

“The more you read and the more you teach yourself, the less you rely on something like drugs to take you to a better place.”

“Prose and poetry are different in construction. You can lie back and read prose, and you can read it fast. Poetry on the other hand, requires a different kind of attention and concentration … the effect it has on the ear and the imagination.”

“So you can take your pick as to which Mundell you prefer; but the Nobel committee basically honored Mundell the younger, the economist who was iconoclastic enough to imagine that Canada, of all places, was the economy of the future--and was right.”

“If you can read and have more imagination than a doorknob, what need do you have for a 'movie version' of a novel?”

“One can transform a place by reading in it.”