“Reading can take you places you have never been before.”

“It looks too new and pristine ever to have been read by anyone else, but it has been: it keeps falling open at the most delightful places as the ghost of its former owner points me to things I've never read before.”

“If you can speak what you will never hear, if you can write what you will never read, you have done rare things.”

“Well I didn't tape him — you never know what's happening, when you see that the Obama administration, and perhaps longer than that, was doing all of this unmasking and, er, surveillance, and you read all about it, and I've been reading about for the last couple of months about the seriousness of the, and horrible situation, with surveillance all over the place, and you've been hearing the word 'unmasking', a word you probably never heard before, so you never know what's out there — but I didn't tape, and I don't have any tape, and I didn't tape.”

“You can go home again, the General Temporal Theory asserts, so long as you understand that home is a place where you have never been.”

“It takes courage to push yourself to places you have never been before… to test yout limits… to break through barriers. And the day came when the risk it took to stay tight inside the bud was more painful than the risk it took to blossum.”

“Not having anything around to read is dangerous: you have to content yourself with life itself, and that can lead you to take risks.”

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

“I have found that sitting in a place where you have never sat before can be inspiring - I wrote my very best poem while sitting on the hen-house.”

“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.”