“Imagine having a mother who worries that you read too much. The question is, what is it that's supposed to happen to people who read too much? How can you tell when someone's crossed the line.”

“How do you tell a Communist? Well, it's someone who reads Marx and Lenin. And how do you tell an anti-Communist? It's someone who understands Marx and Lenin.”

“Why is it he feels some line has been crossed, some boundary transgressed? How much is too much, how far is too far?”

“If you can read this bumper sticker, you are both very well educated and much too close.”
Si hoc adfixum in obice legere potes, et liberaliter educatus et nimis popinquus ades.

“The person who reads too much and uses his brain too little will fall into lazy habits of thinking..”

“Is this a book exhausted from too much reading? Or too little reading?”

“Reading after a certain age diverts the mind too much from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking, just as the man who spends too much time in the theater is tempted to be content with living vicariously instead of living his own life.”

“Much reading after a certain age diverts the mind from its creative pursuits. Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking,”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“Tell me how you read and I'll tell you who you are.”