What’s on my nightstand? Stanford Wong Flunks Big Time, by Lisa Yee.

“Tell me what you read and I’ll tell you who you are” is true enough, but I’d know you better if you told me what you reread. –François Mauriac

Books are lighthouses erected in the great sea of time. –E.P. Whipple

If you resist reading what you disagree with, how will you ever acquire deeper insights into what you believe? The things most worth reading are precisely those that challenge our convictions. –Author Unknown

Books serve to show a man that those original thoughts of his aren’t very new after all. –Abraham Lincoln

There is a wonder in reading Braille that the sighted will never know: to touch words and have them touch you back. –Jim Fiebig