God, the bitter misery that reading works into this world! Everybody knows that - everybody who IS everybody. All the best minds have been off reading for years. Look at the swing La Rochefoucauld took at it. He said that if nobody had ever learned to read, very few people would be in love. Good for you, La Rochefoucauld; nice going, boy. I wish I’d never learned to read.

The Collected Dorothy Parker