“On more than one occasion when reading Epifanio de los Santos, one reads Don Juan Valera.”

“I read so I can live more than one life in more than one place.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life….”

“In general, when reading a scholarly critic, one profits more from his quotations than from his comments.”

“It is absurd to have a hard and fast rule about what one should read and what one shouldn't. More than half of modern culture depends on what one shouldn't read.”

“A book that one has not read yet is always more exciting than a book one has memorized.”

“One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think the sun is shining.”

“When you have mastered the numbers, you will in fact no longer be reading numbers, any more than you read words when reading a book. You will be reading meanings.”

“A person who does not read is no better than one cannot read.”

“Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman. Believing what he read made him mad.”