Akhtar Mirza

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Book collecting is an obsession, an occupation, a disease, an addiction, a fascination, an absurdity, a fate. It is not a hobby. Those who do it must do it. Those who do not do it, think of it as a cousin of stamp collecting, a sister of the trophy cabinet, bastard of a sound bank account and a weak mind.”
― Jeanette Winterson

“I've learned that people will forget what you said, people will forget what you did, but people will never forget how you made them feel.”
― Maya Angelou

“In the very end, civilizations perish because they listen to their politicians and not to their poets.”
― Jonas Mekas