Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger. – Jean-Jacques Rousseau
But because weve all been readers, we know what the experience is like, and we hope that what certain writers have given to us, we will give to someone. – Wallace Shawn
Watch your own speech, and notice how it is guided by your less conscious purposes… – George Eliot, “Borne Along by the Tide,” The Mill on the Floss, 1860
