But A Reader's Ambition Knows No Bounds.

There Is A Line Of Poetry, A Sentence In A Fable, A Word In An Essay, By Which My Existence Is Justified; Find That Line, And Immortality Is Assured.

Readers Are Bullied In Schoolyards And In Locker-rooms As Much As In Government Offices And Prisons.

As We Read A Text In Our Own Language, The Text Itself Becomes A Barrier.

I Enjoyed Learning The Poems, But I Didn't Understand Of What Use They Might Possibly Be. ‘they'll Keep You Company On The Day You Have No Books To Read,' My Teacher Said.

Each Book Was A World Unto Itself, And In It I Took Refuge.