“Why can't people just sit and read books and be nice to each other?”

“Sit in a room and read--and read and read. And read the right books by the right people. Your mind is brought onto that level, and you have a nice, mild, slow-burning rapture all the time.”

“You can't just be reading books all the time and leave the writting of them to others.”

“Practice is necessary. You can't learn to swim just by reading a book about swimming. Otherwise, you will continue to look for teachers at each stop.”

“Let's face it, if there were 10 people like me in the world, we wouldn't have time to read each other's books.”

“I can't understand why people use religion to hurt each other when there's already so much pain in the world.”

“And everyone's reading, you have to read, you can't be on the tube without reading, reading is very important. You get on on the morning and every single person is reading the Metro. Everyone, everyone. [imitates line of people reading newspaper] Why doesn't one person just read it to the carriage?”

“I just can't understand why they carried on with the name. It did them no favours, and however it can be defended, it spoils the memory. It's not so much that it's unforgivable, but it is a pity that we don't see each other and never talk to each other.”

“It's in being read that a book becomes a book, and in each of a million different readings a book become one of a million different books…”

“Brothers don`t necessarily have to say anything to each other-they can sit in a room and be together and just be completely comfortable with each other.”