In general, short stories are less read than before, they're less published than before and, not surprisingly, they're less taught than before.

I’m a reader who uses fiction as a way of worrying about life.

I don't know what people should be reading. Only you know what you should be reading.

The real threat to reading isn’t the time we spend hanging out, it’s the time we spend online.

For me the question that you have to ask, about any magazine, is whether it's needed, whether it's publishing things that no one else could publish, or publish equally well. So there's that.

When a man is once in fashion all he does is right.

There's a kind of amateurishness among French actresses, but I don't share that completely.

When asked what was the proper time for supper: If you are a rich man, whenever you please; and if you are a poor man, whenever you can.

Developing countries often have hypertrophied bureaucracies, requiring businesses to deal with enormous amounts of red tape.

One thing we do know about the threat of climate change is that the cost of adjustment only grows the longer it's left unaddressed.

My daughter refuses to call me mother in public; my little grandson calls me Spongeslob Squarebottom, and nobody else ever calls me at all.

I think it's unhelpful to suggest that the task of evangelism is essentially the responsibility of ministers.

Oh, Zoe Kazan - I'd move back to Brooklyn for her. She makes me happy with my life. Knowing her, being at her dinner table, going on a walk with her is the best of all possible worlds.

Things change whether you want them to, or not--unless you are dead. Don't hold so hard to the past that you die with it.

Great men simplify great principles and make them easily intelligible to ordinary men