Anyone who has read a great deal can imagine the new world that [reading] opened.

لا يدرك الناس أن كتابا واحدا قد يغير حياة انسان

Read! It is as important as breathing until you are breathing.

I learn from the person I was to continue being the person I am.

I have often reflected upon the new vistas that reading has opened to me. I knew right there in prison that reading had changed forever the course of my life. As I see it today, the ability to read awoke inside me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.