is it just me or did you notice that Sawyers speach to Jack about: I read...etc... it helps me think... was similar to the way Locke reacts to people? Just the way Sawyer made a point of saying Winston Churchill read a book everynight, etc.. Locke and Ben had a similar chat while Ben was Henry Gale in the Swan..
I could be wrong but to me there was a similarity..

Sawyer's known to be a reader, not Locke at all!

You're right, it's very similar. Now that you mention it, it reminds me of the speech Locke gave to Boon about Michelangelo staring at the block of stone for a month before starting to sculpt it.