“That's what the voices in your head are for, to get you through the silent parts.”

42 min 33 sec
Cosmos: A Personal Voyage (1990 Update), The Persistence of Memory [Episode 11]
Context: What an astonishing thing a book is. It's a flat object made from a tree with flexible parts on which are imprinted lots of funny dark squiggles. But one glance at it and you're inside the mind of another person, maybe somebody dead for thousands of years. Across the millennia, an author is speaking clearly and silently inside your head, directly to you. Writing is perhaps the greatest of human inventions, binding together people who never knew each other, citizens of distant epochs. Books break the shackles of time. A book is proof that humans are capable of working magic.

Source: In the Western Night: Collected Poems, 1965-1990

Source: Water for Elephants

Source: Crushed

Source: The Six Rules of Maybe

Source: 100 Love Sonnets

Sunday Morning Call
Standing on the Shoulder of Giants (2000)

Source: To Kill a Mockingbird