"Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside a dog, it's too dark to read." - Groucho Marx

“We don’t read and write poetry because it’s cute. We read and write poetry because we are members of the human race. And the human race is filled with passion. And medicine, law business, engineering, these are noble pursuits and necessary to sustain life. But poetry, beauty, romance, love, these are what we stay alive for. To quote from Whitman, “O me! O life!... of the questions of these recurring; of the endless trains of faithless… of cities filled with the foolish; what good amid these, O me, O life?” Answer. That you are here – that life exists, and identity; that the powerful play goes on and you may contribute a verse. What will your verse be?” – Dead Poets Society

"Readers are plentiful; thinkers are rare." - Harriet Martineau

"When I only begin to read I forget I'm on this world. It lifts me on wings with high thoughts."

-Anzia Yozierska

"Easy reading is damned hard writing." -Nathaniel Hawthorne