Man is what he reads.

Who included me among the ranks of the human race?

—Joseph Brodsky

Cherish your human connections: your relationships with friends and family.

—Joseph Brodsky

It is well to read everything of something, and something of everything.

—Joseph Brodsky

It is only in the country that we can get to know a person or a book.

—Cyril Connolly

The liveliness of literature lies in its exceptionality, in being the individual, idiosyncratic vision of one human being, in which, to our delight and great surprise, we may find our own vision reflected.

—Salman Rushdie

The man who doesn't read good books has no advantage over the man who can't read them.

—Mark Twain

I find television very educating. Every time somebody turns on the set, I go into the other room and read a book.

—Groucho Marx

From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Some day I intend reading it.

—Groucho Marx