Anthony Ruta

“Sometimes, immersed in his books, there would come to him the awareness of all that he did not know, of all that he had not read; and the serenity for which he labored was shattered as he realized the little time he had in life to read so much, to learn what he had to know.”
― John Williams, Stoner

“In literature as in love, we are astonished at what is chosen by others.”
― André Maurois

“Life is a compromise of what your ego wants to do, what experience tells you to do, and what your nerves let you do.”
― Walter Bagehot

“Every book in the world is out there waiting to be read by me.”
― Roberto Bolaño, The Savage Detectives