Read a lot. Expect something big, something exalting or deepening from a book. No book is worth reading that isn't worth re-reading.

There are too many books in the world to read in a single lifetime; you have to draw the line somewhere.

A good book is like really loved item at a really good restaurant, every time you go there you order it to see if it tastes like you remember, only to find out it is even BETTER than you remembered!

There's nothing wrong with reading a book you love over and over. When you do, the words get inside you, become a part of you, in a way that words in a book you've read only once can't.

No book is really worth reading at the age of ten which is not equally – and often far more – worth reading at the age of fifty and beyond.

[T]o read was precisely to enter another world, which was not the reader's own, and come back refreshed, ready to bear with equanimity the injustices and frustrations of this one. Reading was balm, amusement -- not incitement.