Will

“The novel does not say, it shows; it shows me my life in a figure: it compels me to stare at my toes.”
― William H. Gass, Fiction and the Figures of Life

“You have to store up books, becoming acquainted with human experience; let them lie around your thoughts, becoming yours—ring upon ring, as a tree grows, let them rise up from the depths like coral islands.

If it gets crowded with all the books and there's nowhere to put your bed, it's better to exchange it for a folding bed”
― Viktor Shklovsky