Reading and life are not separate but symbiotic. And for this serious task of imaginative discovery and self-discovery, there is and remains one perfect symbol: the printed book.

Leave no stone unturned, yet disturb no stone.

You will never know what you want, until you know who you are.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

Me and my books, in the same apartment: like a gherkin in its vinegar.

Writing the story of their own life allows the author to parse their story into examinable segments while continuing to engage in the act of communion and creation.