If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment.

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

If you have read 6, 000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment

The American people can have anything they want the trouble is they don't know what they want.

Genius ain't anything more than elegant common sense.

Put yourself out of your misery.

A woman's mind is as complex as the contents of her handbag; even when you get to the bottom of it, there is ALWAYS something at the bottom to surprise you!

The soul is a very perfect judge of her own motions, if your mind doesn't dictate to her.

There is but one means to extenuate the effects of enemy fire: it is to develop a more violent fire oneself.

It's been perfect. I can still ride a subway and work with great people. I can't imagine being Julia Roberts. I don't have the fortitude to withstand that kind of attention.

Reading and writing, arithmetic and grammar do not constitute education, any more than a knife, fork and spoon constitute a dinner.

In spite of its romantic frisson, the position of muse is very vague and largely thankless for the muse herself.

The love of posterity is the consequence of the necessity of death. If a man were sure of living forever here, he would not care about his offspring.