A lifetime of reading novels will teach you how to feel superior to a world in which you are no use.
May 022018
Reading
The dead alive and busy.
—Vaughan
Mar 272018
There is nothing too profound for the right interpreter to grind into banality.
Mar 212018
Many books are good for no one, but no books are good for everyone.
Mar 062018
The writer proposes: the reader disposes.
Sep 292017
Universal literacy guarantees an imbecile press.
Sep 212017
Influential books usually have a few readers, who usually have a great many.
Jun 092017
Your shelves should not contain the books you’ve read, but the books you’re going to read.
May 162017
Almost no one is worth reading on more than one subject.
Apr 062017
When you find yourself in a book, you lose the book.
Feb 172017
Writers can write nonsense without ill effect. It is when readers put up with, then expect, and finally demand it that civilization ends.