You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—... - Rodney Ulyate, Hitch's Books: What he read, what he loved, and what he sent "windmilling across the room in a spasm of boredom and annoyance"

"You learn almost as much about a thinker from what he reads—in particular, what he likes and what he disdains—as from what he writes himself."