Actors go, 'I just want to act.' And I say to them, 'You know, stop for a second and think about what charges you up the most. Do you want to be on the stage, do you want to be in film, do you want to be a comic actor? Do you just want to make it for...
I could draw Bloom County with my nose and pay my cleaning lady to write it, and I'd bet I wouldn't lose 10% of my papers over the next twenty years. Such is the nature of comic-strips. Once established, their half-life is usually more than nuclear w...
I grew up on the crime stuff. Spillane, Chandler, Jim Thompson, and noir movies like Fuller, Orson Welles, Fritz Lang. When I first showed up in New York to write comics back in the late 1970s, I came with a bunch of crime stories but everybody just ...
Being a stand-up comic, this isn't a stepping-stone for me; it's what I do, and this is what I'm always going to do. And even if I do a TV show, the only reasons to do a TV show is to get more people to know me to come out to my stand-up shows.
There's no thief like a bad book.
Books and friends should be few but good.
True power is in the unknown.
A good book has no ending.
Magazine articles are the new books.
Books follow morals, and not morals books.
Not all books are created equally, but, all books are created.
Every book is a children's book if the kid can read!
I have this obsession with really cool, old books.
Bullying Has Been Going On For So Long, That if it Was A Disease, Mankind Would We Have A Cure or At Least A Pill For It...Already! Bullying Ben The Book
Books are love letters (or apologies) passed between us, adding a layer of conversation beyond our spoken words.
I never thought I'd be a writer. I never thought I'd be able to read a book, let alone write one. So if books like this inspire kids to write, or even read a whole book, I think it's good.
And tell them all about the books you've read. Better still, buy some more books and read them. That's an order. You can never read too many books.
The popular culture gives us books that offer entertainment but no ideas. High culture gives us books that offer ideas but no entertainment. The best books manage to do both.
The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.
A book is much more than a delivery vehicle for its contents.
A book on war is useful, but it’d be even more useful if it could shoot bullets. Or stop them. Or stop illiteracy. Oh, If only Congress could read what they sign into law.
