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

“A man should look for what is, and not for what he thinks should be.”

“"He" should be read as "he or she" throughout the book.”

“By now he had learned enough to know that when he was getting annoyed at somebody else, it was usually because there was something that he himself should be doing, and he wasn't doing it.”

“A writer should read until he is filled to the brim and like a pitcher which is over-filled over flows. And then he should write.”

“So Bertrand Russell once said to me that the pupil in school should study whatever he liked. I asked whether this was not a crime against the pupil. … Should he be allowed to grow up without knowing Shakespeare? … Lord Russell replied that he would require a boy to read one play of Shakespeare; if he did not like it, he should not be compelled to read any more.”

“The author should die once he has finished writing. So as not to trouble the path of the text.”

“Some tell us that it is the desire of God that we should worship him. What for? Why does he desire worship? Others tell us that we should sacrifice something to him. What for? Is he in want? Can we assist him? Is he unhappy? Is he in trouble?”

“I think he's saying there should be more than a minute.”

“If we encounter a man of rare intellect, we should ask him what books he reads.”