Essential Books

Reading is like thinking, like praying, like talking to a friend, like expressing your ideas, like listening to other peoples ideas, like listening to music, like looking at the view, like taking a walk on the beach.

Books are the plane, and the train, and the road. They are the destination, and the journey. They are home.

If one cannot enjoy reading a book over and over again, there is no use in reading it at all.

Sometimes, you read a book and it fills you with this weird evangelical zeal, and you become convinced that the shattered world will never be put back together unless and until all living humans read the book.