" Lord! When you sell a man a book you don’t sell him just twelve ounces of paper and ink and glue—you sell him a whole new life. Love and friendship and humour and ships at sea by night—there’s all heaven and earth in a book, in a real book I mean. —CHRISTOPHER MORLEY, Parnassus on Wheels "

― Jonathan Gottschall , The Storytelling Animal: How Stories Make Us Human