Reading was artificial borrowed life, benefiting from ideas and sensations transmitted cerebrally, acquiring the treasures of human truth by purchase or swindle, not by work.

The passion of the collector when confronted with a rare item, the enthusiasm of a hunter who sees a fine, handsome beast, can give us no idea of the tremendous love of clothes in some women.

Reading is an activity of civilized beings.

Seek O mortal, the meaning of life in your innermost silence!

No shame, no solution, no remorse, no retribution, just people selling t-shirts.

I am a little discouraged and irritated at the welfare recipient families growing in size all the time. Those of us who work and pay taxes all the time shouldn't have to pay for these kids.

Perhaps the most serious complaint you could make about Bach is that he has every quality of humanity except imperfection.

My faith tells me that God does want people to understand climate change and do something about it.

When a woman reaches twenty-six in America, she's on the slide. It's downhill all the way from then on. It doesn't give you a tremendous feeling of confidence and well-being.

There is two feet of space between us, and about a mile of separation.

The good rain, like a bad preacher, does not know when to leave off.

I'm a religious man. I am Jewish but I believe in all religions. I believe in God and see him as an old man with a big white beard and pray to him every day for a few minutes.