When you travel your first discovery is that you do not exist.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading. It is cheap, it consoles, it distracts, it excites, it gives you knowledge of the world and experience of a wide kind. It is a moral illumination.

The greatest gift is a passion for reading.

Reading is a discount ticket to everywhere.

Adversity is a great teacher, but this teacher makes us pay dearly for its instruction; and often the profit we derive, is not worth the price we paid.

Books give not wisdom where none was before. But where some is, there reading makes it more.

The famous carry about with them a great weight of patriarchal baggage-the footnotes of their lives.

The fifties - they seem to have taken place on a sunny afternoon that asked nothing of you except a drifting belief in the moment and its power to satisfy.

Sometimes one has the feeling of an almost supernatural character to the shifts and changes in our national mood. They appear beyond the prose of cause and effect.

Self-love is an idolatry. Self-hatred is a tragedy.

Since films and television have staged everything imaginable before it happens, a true event, taking place in the real world, brings to mind the landscape of films.

These scars that we have... they don't go away. They only fade with time, but they're still hauntingly there.

Girls, if a boy says something that isn't funny, you don't have to laugh.

It was Nick Willing's intention to make 'Hatter' as sarcastically British funny as he could.

What a writer can do, what a fiction writer or a poet or an essay writer can do is re-engage people with their own humanity.

Substantiate or suffocate, Ms. Vetra. Mickey's ticking.

Kim [Kardashian]'s style is very sexy - she loves anything tight that hugs her body - and she's also very trendy.

The dreamers ride against the men of action. Oh see the men of action falling back.

It’s hard to feel hurt or frightened when you’re flooded with pity.

I'm tough in the sense that I believe as strongly in what I'm doing as anybody else believes in what they are doing.

[Antonio] Gramsci's words and actions explain their assessment, though I think we should refrain from using the term "model intellectual" for him or others.