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Even when reading is impossible, the presence of books acquired (by passionate devotion to them) produces such an ecstasy that the buying of more books than one can peradventure read is nothing less than the soul reaching towards infinity ... we cherish books even if unread, their mere presence exudes comfort, their ready access, reassurance.
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If you wish to be a lawyer, attach no consequence to the place you are in, or the person you are with; but get books, sit down anywhere, and go to reading for yourself. That will make a lawyer of you quicker than any other way.
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As a general rule, I abstain from reading reports of attacks upon myself, wishing not to be provoked by that to which I cannot properly offer an answer.
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Leafing through Forbes or Fortune [magazine]s is like reading the operating manual of a strangely sanctimonious pirate ship
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Slowly, my brain let me in on the fact that I had just come this close to dying.
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What a splendid head, yet no brain.
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I had casually rented an apartment that cost $75 a month because I expected my writing to pay my way.
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I am officially Jewish, but I’m Jewish in the same way the Olive Garden is an Italian restaurant.
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The present enables us to understand the past, not the other way round.
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Definition, rationality, and structure are ways of seeing, but they become prisons when they blank out other ways of seeing.
