One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life. People who don't read are trapped in a mine shaft, even if they think th… - Garrison Keillor

One reads books in order to gain the privilege of living more than one life....

A book is a gift you can open again and again.

was asking what the difference was between mime and pantomime and no one would say.

The word “loser” is spoken with such contempt these days, a man might like to forget the losses in his own life that taught him something about good judgment. The money he invested in that casino in Atlantic City that went bust, the university course he enrolled in that promised to teach him the secrets of success but instead he wound up unemployed and 40 grand in debt, the candidate whose hat he wore who turned out to be tone-deaf and deluded — dumb, dumb, dumb, and yet his loved ones did not chortle and point and do the nyaa-nyaa. They put an arm around him and said, “This is how we learn.” And it is.