Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
“You can read all the textbooks and listen to all the records, but you have to play with musicians that are better than you.”
“I used to be a retailer, and I find it discouraging when somebody comes in and they pick something up and they say, 'Now if you'll sell it to me without the sales tax, I'll buy it.'”