“Oh, books, books what worlds of pleasure you open! What freedom you offer all prisoners! How do people live who never read or want to read? I cannot understand them.”
“All good books are alike in that they are truer than if they had really happened and after you are finished reading one you will feel that all that happened to you and afterwards it all belongs to you: the good and the bad, the ecstasy, the remorse and the sorrow, the people and the places and how the weather was.”
Tales of the Marvelous 