It takes courage to knowingly read a book that is challenging some of your cherished beliefs.

You are more likely to find three TVs inside a randomly selected house than you are to find a single book that is or was not read to pass an exam, to please God, or to be a better cook.

The death of a billionaire is worth more to the media than the lives of a billion poor people.

Most readers have low standards. All they demand from a book is entertainment.

When reading a book, you are sold what some writer thought. When reading a newspaper, you are sold what someone did, and, what some advertiser made.

Buying, borrowing, or stealing the book is the easy part.

There are more writers who read than readers who write.

Sometimes it is the reader that sucks, not the book.

A writer is merely a reader that had the guts to be read, and, heard.