Reading is not an end to itself, but a means to an end.

I pluck up the good lissome herbs of sentences by pruning, eat them by reading, digest them by musing, and lay them up at length in the high seat of memory.

The cool thing about reading is that when you read a short story or you read something that takes your mind and expands where your thoughts can go, that's powerful.

Today I continue with my science-fiction reading habit and find it very mind-expanding. Always makes me think.

To describe my scarce leisure time in today's terms, I always default to reading.

Reading Clausewitz makes you take your own thoughts a little less seriously.