We Read To Understand, Or To Begin

My Books Hold Between Their Covers Every Story I've Ever Known And Still Remember, Or Have Now Forgotten, Or May One Day Read; They Fill The Space Around Me With Ancient And New Voices.

In Every Literate Society, Learning To Read Is Something Of An Initiation, A Ritualized Passage Out Of A State Of Dependency And Rudimentary Communication.

Not Until I Came To Canada Did I Realize That Snow Was A Four-letter Word.

Every Library Is A Library Of Preferences, And Every Chosen Category Implies An Exclusion.

A Society Can Exist - Many Do Exist - Without Writing, But No Society Can Exist Without Reading.