The careful reader of the New Testament will find three Christs described One who wished to preserve Judaism one who wished to reform it, and one who built a system of his own

A good word is like a good tree whose root is firmly fixed and whose top is in the sky

Reading is like the sex act-done privately, and often in bed.

They say you can read faces. Well, if that is true, you can read the entire Vietnamese War in the crowds here.

Reading, to most people, means an ashamed way of killing time disguised under a dignified name

Reading isn't good for a ballplayer. Not good for his eyes. If my eyes went bad even a little bit I couldn't hit home runs. So I gave up reading.

Reading is not a duty, and has consequently no business to be made disagreeable.

Of all the diversions of life, there is none so proper to fill up its empty spaces as the reading of useful and entertaining authors.

You could read Kant by yourself, if you wanted; but you must share a joke with some one else

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole Life to reading my works