Srinivasan Balakumar

“Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that surrounds you when you hear an author's words reverberating in your head.”
― Paul Auster, The Brooklyn Follies

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero

“The eye through which I see God is the same eye through which God sees me; my eye and God's eye are one eye, one seeing, one knowing, one love.”
― Meister Eckhart, Sermons of Meister Eckhart

“I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.”
― Groucho Marx