All these are readers, and their gestures, their craft, the pleasure, the responsibility and the power they derive from reading, are common with mine. I am not alone.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

Life happened because I turned the pages.

Readers are bullied in schoolyards and in locker-rooms as much as in government offices and prisons.

I wanted to live among books.

At my age flowers scare me.

The best compliment was Ben Kingsley coming up to me, putting his hand on the back of my neck, and saying, "Good job, son.".

I can't do nothing just a little.

To the contrary, I think we bent over backwards to press for elections and for democratic reform.

Bodily changes take place, like the thing with the kick.

Ruthless concern with story is what I learned in television.

I was a competitive guy growing up.

The goodness you do might fail; but keep doing it, because the real failure is never doing goodness!

Thus does the Muse herself move men divinely inspired, and through them thus inspired a Chain hangs together of others inspired divinely likewise.

If I sound like I'm enjoying myself, it's not artificial. It's real.