I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening..

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading..

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function..

In the light, we read the inventions of others; in the darkness we invent our own stories..