I can not live with out books.

For the reader who has put away comic books, but isn't yet ready for editorials in the Daily News.

Sometimes when reading Goethe I have the paralyzing suspicion that he is trying to be funny.

The cruelest thing anyone can do to Portnoy's Complaint is to read it twice.

Every reader should remember the diffidence of Socrates, and repair by his candour the injuries of time he should impute the seeming defects of his author to some chasm of intelligence, and suppose that the sense which is now weak was once forcible

The American reading his Sunday paper in a state of lazy collapse is perhaps the most perfect symbol of the triumph of quantity over quality... Whole forests are ground into pulp to minister to our triviality

You can either read something many times in order to be assured that you got it all, or else you can define your purpose and use techniques which will assure that you have met it and gotten what you need.

By reading the characteristic features of any man's castles in the air you can make a shrewd guess as to his underlying desires which are frustrated.

I never read the life of any important person without discovering that he knew more and could do more than I could ever hope to know or do in half a dozen lifetimes.

A conventional good read is usually a bad read, a relaxing bath in what we know already. A true good read is surely an act of innovative creation in which we, the readers, become conspirators