Phillip Ressler

“Real reading is a lonely activity.”
― Harold Bloom, The Western Canon: The Books and School of the Ages

“In no department can a leader spend time more profitably than in the selection of the men who are to accomplish the work.”
― Douglas Mawson

“If you're looking for something more in life, you're likely to find it in something less.”
― Jeff Yeager, The Cheapskate Next Door: The Surprising Secrets of Americans Living Happily Below Their Means

“We read deeply for varied reasons, most of them familiar: that we cannot know enough people profoundly enough; that we need to know ourselves better; that we require knowledge, not just of self and others, but of the way things are. Yet the strongest, most authentic motive for deep reading…is the search for a difficult pleasure.”
― Harold Bloom