Lists of books we reread and books we can't finish tell more about us than about the relative worth of the books themselves.
“A jealous lover of human liberty, deeming it the absolute condition of all that we admire and respect in humanity, I reverse the phrase of Voltaire, and say that, if God really existed, it would be necessary to abolish him.”
“A weekend in Vegas without gambling and drinking is just like being a born-again Christian.”