Henry David Thoreau, on books:

Books are the carriers of civilization.

Without books, history is silent.

- Henry David Thoreau. 

Introvert insight:

I would rather sit on a pumpkin and have it all to myself, than be crowded on a velvet cushion.

– Henry David Thoreau.

 
Don’t think of introversion as something that needs to be cured.
– Susan Cain.

I don’t have time for superficial friends.
I suppose, if you’re really lonely, you can call a superficial friend, but otherwise, what’s the point?
– Courtney Cox.

 

Silence is only frightening to people who are compulsively verbalizing.
– William S. Burroughs.