“I think that's easier to read. Pardon me. Less difficult to read.”

“To read is to withdraw. To make oneself unavailable. One would feel easier about it if the pursuit inself were less… selfish.”

“Often have I sighed to measure
By myself a lonely pleasure,—
Sighed to think I read a book,
Only read, perhaps, by me.”

“He made me think of all the books I hadn't read, and all the ones I'd read but hadn't fully understood.”

“The less we read, the more harmful it is what we read.”

“I like reading in a pub rather than a library or study, as it's generally much easier to get a drink.”

“I insist on a lot of time being spent, almost every day, to just sit and think. That is very uncommon in American business. I read and think. So I do more reading and thinking, and make less impulse decisions than most people in business. I do it because I like this kind of life.”

“Less smoking and more reading.”

“Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings… if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.”

“Read me, read me. Love me, love.”