"I could have made money this way, and perhaps amused myself writing code. But I knew that at the end of my career, I would look back on years of building walls to divide people, and feel I had spent my life making the world a worse place."

"I also did some jail time a few years ago. Spent a whole summer in jail reading books. I pumped a ton of new knowledge and new thinking into myself."

"You're never too old, too wacky, too wild, to pick up a book and read to a child."

"I can always live by my pen."

"For my whole life, my favorite activity was reading. It's not the most social pastime."

"You have to be a speedy reader because there’s so so much to read."