TS Chan

“For instance, on the planet Earth, man had always assumed that he was more intelligent than dolphins because he had achieved so much—the wheel, New York, wars and so on—whilst all the dolphins had ever done was muck about in the water having a good time. But conversely, the dolphins had always believed that they were far more intelligent than man—for precisely the same reasons.”
― Douglas Adams, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy

“No entertainment is so cheap as reading, nor any pleasure so lasting.”
― Mary Wortley Montagu

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.”
― Italo Calvino, The Uses of Literature