From Joe Queenan’s One For The Books:
“I love to pull my books down off the shelf and read striking passages to baffled dimwits who have turned up at my house.”
And:
“”Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful.”
"Words ought to be a little wild, for they are the assaults of thoughts on the unthinking."
— John Maynard Keynes