“In the case of good books, the point is not to see how many of them you can get through, but rather how many can get through to you.”

"A reader lives a thousand lives before he dies, said Jojen. The man who never reads lives only one."

"Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book."