It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it. -Oscar Wilde


A book must be an ice-axe to break the seas frozen inside our soul. -Franz Kafka

To sit alone in the lamplight with a book spread out before you, and hold intimate converse with men of unseen generations - such is a pleasure beyond compare. -Kenko Yoshida


Fiction reveals truths that reality obscures. -Jessamyn West


There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. -Jim Fiebig