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I bet if you look at the average teenager and the average adult, the average teenager has read more books in the last year than the average adult. Now...more

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I wish I knew how to quit you, Tumblr.

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Just move to the Internet, its great here. We get to live inside where the weather is always awesome.

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Great books help you understand and they help you feel understood.

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It doesn’t matter how long we’ve used something; all that matters is how awesome the thing replacing it is. MP3s and automobiles happen to be really, ...more

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Reading with an eye towards metaphor allows us to become the person we’re reading about, while reading about them. That’s why there is symbols in book...more

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Reading a good book helps us to feel un-alone.

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Oh, Wikipedia, with your tension between those who would share knowledge and those who would destroy it.

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Human existence is temporary and all the knowledge of the universe we acquire will in time be forgotten because there will be no humans left to benefi...more

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Either write something worth reading, or do something worth writing.

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I know that books seem like the ultimate thing that’s made by one person, but that’s not true… Every reading of a book is a collaboration between the ...more

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Ultimately what I like about reading together is that we all make it happen together. Of course even amid shared experience we’re still alone… each re...more

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You and me will read a book and find three interesting things that we remember. But Colin finds everything intriguing. He reads a book about president...more

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He liked the mere act of reading, the magic of turning scratches on a page into words inside his head.

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Books are the ultimate Dumpees: put them down and they’ll wait for you forever pay attention to them and they always love you back.