The art of investing is not about figuring out what has already happened. It’s about anticipating the futureand creating the future that others will read about in The Wall Street Journal.

Reading is a time machine that allows you to acquire wisdom from the past and to analyze and imagine another person’s vision of the future.

Reading books is a way for you to communicate with and learn from the best thinkers that are writing today and that have ever lived.

There are all kinds of things you can do to marry literacy with health.

Hear this Robert Zimmerman, I wrote a song for you, about a strange young man called Dylan with a voice like sand and glue.

I don't care if I starve.

Good taste rejects excessive nicety.

You might be a redneck if you've ever stood in line to get your picture taken with a freak of nature.

I wasn't that into crime novels at all, but a friend introduced me to the work of Jim Thompson - I loved all his books.

If anyone wants to know what elephants are like, they are like people only more so.

Being an umpire is like being a king. It prepares you for nothing.

A foreign country can best be understood through its literature.