“There is nothing that is more profoundly healing than the act of solitary reading provided that what is being read is indeed permanent, deep, lasting work. Work that calls for all of your faculties in response. Work that calls you out of your own deep as it were. Work that transforms you. That is to say Shakespeare, Dante, Dickens, Jane Austen. We know who this authors are, we neglect them I think, at our own potential debasement.”