Noah

“it struck me what quality went to form a Man of Achievement, especially in Literature, and which Shakespeare possessed so enormously - I mean Negative Capability, that is, when a man is capable of being in uncertainties, mysteries, doubts, without any irritable reaching after fact and reason.”
― John Keats

“The man who does not read has no advantage over the man who cannot read.”
― Mark Twain

“Could a greater miracle take place than for us to look through each other’s eyes for an instant?”
― Henry David Thoreau

“Books are a uniquely portable magic.”
― Stephen King, On Writing: A Memoir of the Craft