““What was all that about?”
“It’s an occupational hazard… You start by reading books, and you end by loving them.””

“There is what might be called a Catch-22 of hazardous occupations: The more hazardous the job, the more men; the more men, the less we care about making the job safer. The Catch-22 of hazardous occupations creates a 'glass cellar' which few women wish to enter. Women are alienated not just out of the fear of being hurt on the job, but by an atmosphere that can make a hazardous job more hazardous than it needs to be.”

“That was one thing about books: once you read them they couldn’t be unread.”

“Read the best books first, or you may not have a chance to read them at all.”

“You want to know about anybody? See what books they read, and how they've been read…”

“Reading those books is all he does these days. I think he’s even read some of them. What kind of disturbed individual would read the same book twice, I ask you?”

“History was what had happened; class was something you read about in a book.”

“I'm about to start reading it again, because what good is a story you only want to read once?”

“Reading is my favourite occupation, when I have leisure for it and books to read.”

“I read a book twice as fast as anybody else. First, I read the beginning, and then I read the ending, and then I start in the middle and read toward whatever end I like best.”