John Goodman, actor Virginia Woolf's Mrs. Dalloway is the first great book I ever read. I read it when I was fifteen, almost by accident. It stayed with me in a way no other book has. I read on airplanes. In town, even though I'm out every night, I'll prop myself up in bed and read a chapter or two before I got to sleep.
Books are uniquely portable magic.
At such times I find a book vital.