Do not read, as children do, to amuse yourself, or like the ambitious, for the purpose of instruction. No, read in order to live.
“There will be extraordinary unpredictable outbursts, a sort of volatility, largely driven by extremist cults of one sort or another… That’s what we have to look forward to — that, plus the Internet and Virtual Reality. People will retreat into these electronic hideaways.”
J. G. Ballard