Sometimes One Succeeds, Sometimes One Fails.

We Read Deeply For Varied Reasons, Most Of Them Familiar: That We Cannot Know Enough People Profoundly Enough; That We Need To Know Ourselves Better; That We Require Knowledge, Not Just Of Self And Others, But Of The Way Things Are. Yet The Strongest, Most Authentic Motive For Deep Reading…is The Search For A Difficult Pleasure.

Real Reading Is A Lonely Activity.

In The Finest Critics One Hears The Full Cry Of The Human. They Tell One Why It Matters To Read.

Shakespeare Is Universal.

Reading Well Is One Of The Greatest Pleasures That Solitude Can Afford You.