“There are times when ten pages of some book will fall under your eye just at the moment when your very life, it seems, depends on your reading those ten pages. You recognize in them immediately the answer to all your most pressing questions. They open a new road.”

Merton, Thomas. The Sign of Jonas. (San Diego: Harcourt, Inc., 1981), p. 305. (this text written 10 October 1950)