"I spent my South Pacific tour in every library in Britain, Ireland, Scotland and Wales. And on the nights we were dark, I'd see every play I could. But it's the books, the reading, that can change one's life. I'm the living evidence."
--Sean Connery, from an interview with the Houston Chronicle in 1992, quoted on Saturday in a New York Times obituary, discussing a reading list given to him by a mentor during his first acting gig after a hardscrabble early life.