“ Reading to small children is a specialty. ”
Don't be afraid of poetry.
~ Clifton Fadiman
When you re-read a classic you do not see in the book more than you did before. You see more in you than there was before.
Books act like a developing fluid on film. That is, they bring into consciousness what you didn’t know you knew.
One measure of friendship consists not in the number of things friends can discuss, but in the number of things they need no longer mention.