I lived within the cover of books and those books were more real to me than any other thing in my life. - Anna Quindlen

When you really want to say no, say no. You can't do everything - or at least not well.

While we pay lip service to the virtues of reading, the truth is that there is still in our culture something that suspects those who read too much, whatever reading too much means, of being lazy, aimless dreamers, people who need to grow up and come outside to where real life is, who think themselves superior in their separateness.

Maybe crazy is just the word we use for feelings that will not be contained.