"Read deeply, not to believe, not to accept, not to contradict, but to
learn to share in that one nature that writes and reads." --Harold
Bloom

"Literature has been the salvation of the damned, literature has
inspired and guided lovers, routed despair and can perhaps...save the world."
--John Cheever

"Love has no awareness of merit or demerit; it has no scale... Love
loves; this is its nature." --Howard Thurman

"Through the use of books, I had the whole world at my feet, could
travel anywhere, meet anyone, and do anything." --Benjamin Carson

"Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of
choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful
stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in
your head." --Paul Auster