When we read we are able to travel to many places, meet many people and understand the world.

Read 500 pages every day. That's how knowledge works. It builds up like compound interest.

I think you should read everything you can. In my case, by the age of 10, I'd read every book in the Omaha public library about investing, some twice. You need to fill your mind with various competing thoughts and decide which make sense.

To have a second language at your disposal, even if you only know it enough to read it with pleasure, is a sensible advantage....to secure the enormous boon of access to a second literature. Choose well, choose wisely, and choose one.

My mother insisted that her children read.

I did study Shakespeare, that was sort of my thing; I got a Literature A-level, which is my only claim to academic fame.