“I want to say, of course literature is just as important [as the sciences and peace], but this is something in the dead of night I kind of worry about. … I’ve been saying for years, if you take away reading, take away literature, you take away something very, very important in the way we human beings communicate with each other. … We’ve got to be able to tell each other what it feels like to be in different kinds of situations. Otherwise, we don’t know what to do with our knowledge.” – The Washington Post
