Reading centers on finding yourself in a book.

Reading centers on finding yourself in a book. -- Sherman Alexie

She was the one who wanted to be with him, the one who watched and waited for him, who felt his absence badly.

One must never place a loaded rifle on the stage if it isn't going to go off. It's wrong to make promises you don't mean to keep.

By creating instinctively in auto mode we can uncover our true motives, our creative drive.

Youth doesn't reason, it acts. The old man reasons and would like to make the others act in his place.

Well, it arose out of two long-term concerns - the first being the possibility of genetic manipulation, nature versus nurture, what constitutes how people get to be how they are.

Everything direct is positive, everything indirect is negative.

If I have a girlfriend, I don’t bring her to flaunt her. She doesn’t get to reap the benefits of me being famous.

I show off - I'm a very good show off. It's what I do, it's what I'm good at.

I got addicted to the addiction book. I actually started developing all the addictions of the people in the book that I was writing about, without realizing it.

You're never going to learn everything.