By their very nature, idiots do not have the intellectual capacity to identify genius. All that idiots are mentally equipped to recognize are other idiots.

People don’t read to enlighten themselves or seek to gain some valuable insight into their own psychology. People read to escape.

Crazy people love their Kindles.

The big trinity of publishing: mystery, thrillers and romance. If you can combine all three, then it’s a winner’s trifecta and you’ll be rich beyond your dreams.

a town with more drinking joints than reading joints has a problem reading can solve

We do not claim that the portrait we are making is the whole truth, only that it is a resemblance.

No book ever takes the place of the Bible. It is its own best commentary.

Late to bed, late to rise, makes a man unhealthy, poor, and stupid.

I don't think there's anything immature about fighting for the underdog and fighting for people who don't have a voice. I have an intense desire to protect people who can't protect themselves.

The authors of book reviews would consider themselves dishonored were they to mention, as they should, the subject of the book.

I am not a star. At least, I don't consider myself a star.

I've been to the top and I believe I've been to the bottom as well.

Monica Vitti is astonishingly mobile. Few actresses have such mobile features. She has her own personal and original way of acting.

When you take a pitch and line it somewhere, it's like you've thought of something and put it with beautiful clarity.