When you read a classic, you do not see more in the book than you did before; you see more in you than there was before.
“Courtrooms contain every symbol of authority that a set designer could imagine. Everyone stands up when you come in. You wear a costume identifying you as, if not quite divine, someone special.”
“That was the problem with reading: you always had to pick up again at the very thing that had made you stop reading the day before.”