If there really is such a thing as turning in one's grave, Shakespeare must get a lot of exercise. - George Orwell

[...] you can get anything in this world if you genuinely don't want it.

There are books that one reads over and over again, books that become part of the furniture of one’s mind and alter one’s whole attitude to life, books that one dips into but never reads through, books that one reads at a single sitting and forgets a week later:

So long as I remain alive and well I shall continue to feel strongly about prose style, to love the surface of the earth, and to take a pleasure in solid objects and scraps of useless information.