Someday I'd like to read a story about competent people on Mars.

I shall keep my book on the table here, and read a little every morning as soon as I wake, for I know it will do me good, and help me through the day.

I plan to travel to Mars and make it my home.
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People should be traveling to Mars and doing it in our lifetime.

When I want to read a book, I write one.

To keep reading. And write, despite the convenient excuse of 'life'.

I told the Englishman that my alma mater was books, a good library. Every time I catch a plane, I have with me a book that I want to read—and that's a lot of books these days. If I weren't out here every day battling the white man, I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity—because you can hardly mention anything I'm not curious about.

My alma mater was books, a good library.... I could spend the rest of my life reading, just satisfying my curiosity.

I want leisure to read — an immense amount.

Perhaps it's my destiny to remain a book-keeper for ever and for poetry and literature to remain simply butterflies that alight on my head and merely underline my own ridiculousness by their very beauty.

Reading remained Musk’s psychological retreat. Sometimes he would immerse himself in books all afternoon and most of the night, nine hours at a stretch.

The demand that I make of my reader is that he should devote his whole life to reading my works.

You could spend a lifetime reading in here.

Read in order to live.

As long as I know there exists in the world someone who does tricks only for the love of the trick, as long as I know there is a woman who loves reading for reading's sake, I can convince myself that the world continues...And every evening I, too, abandon myself to reading, like that distant unknown woman...