"The more you praise and celebrate your life, the more there is in life to celebrate."

"What is the good of a book that does not transport you beyond all experience?"

"The only way to deal with the world is to be a part of it, to live in it, and to accept it as it is."

"A book must be the axe for the frozen sea within us."

"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us. If the book we are reading doesn't wake us up with a blow on the head, what's the point of reading it? So that it will make us h…"