“Sometimes, though, I feel that pushing books
is a whole lot like pushing medicine. Think of books as pills.
I have pills that cure ignorance and pills that cure boredom.
I have pills to elevate moods and pills to open people’s eyes
to the awful truth: uppers and downers as they were.
I sell pills to help people find themselves and pills to help them
lose themselves when they require escape from the
pressures and anxieties of life in a complex society…”
– Tom Robbins