This nice and subtle happiness of reading, this joy not chilled by age, this polite and unpunished vice, this selfish, serene life-long intoxication.  Logan Pearsall Smith

This will never be a civilized country until we expend more money for books than we do for chewing gum.  Elbert Hubbard

Through literacy you can begin to see the universe.  Through music you can reach anybody.  Between the two there is you, unstoppable.  Grace Slick

'Tis the good reader that makes the good book; in every book he finds passages which seem confidences or asides hidden from all else and unmistakenly meant for his ear; the profit of books is according to the sensibility of the reader; the profoundest thought or passion sleeps as in a mine, until it is discovered by an equal mind and heart.  Ralph Waldo Emerson

To read a writer is for me not merely to get an idea of what he says, but to go off with him and travel in his company.Andre Gide

To acquire the habit of reading is to construct for yourself a refuge from almost all the miseries of life.  Somerset Maugham

To choose a good book, look in an inquisitor’s prohibited list.  John Aikin

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading. Jimmy Buffett 

To read a book for the first time is to make an acquaintance with a new friend; to read it for a second time is to meet an old one.  Chinese Saying

To read a newspaper is to refrain from reading something worth while. The first discipline of education must therefore be to refuse resolutely to feed the mind with canned chatter.Aleister Crowley