Growing up, I wish that I'd had the supplies and laptops and all the new technology that's out right now.
I'm governor of New York.
I have a handful of prayers that I pray all the time... One is that God will put my books into the right hands at the right times. I've prayed this prayer thousands of times, and God has answered it in dramatic fashion countless times. The right book...
I don't know why we stopped reading together, but gradually we were not doing it regularly, and then without realizing it was happening we were reading different books, and gradually we came not to care about the book the other one was reading, becau...
I was there to get a Ph.D. in English literature. That's not true. I was there to read a lot of books and to discuss them with bright, insightful, book-loving people, an expectation that I pretty quickly learned was about as silly as it could be. Cer...
I read, and underline, anything I can get my hands on, but I have a particular weakness for self-help books. I love these books, though I dislike the term "self-help." For one thing, it's not accurate. You're not helping yourself. The person who wrot...
Whenever people ask me, "How are your books doing?" or, "How is your book doing?" I just say, "It's okay." I mean, what am I supposed to say? I'm a writer; that means I write because I need to write, because that's how I breathe and that's how I blee...
Peace ain't worth fighting for.
The change of language is a change in reality.
It is all for naught, if not for love.
Tea ... is a religion of the art of life.
My favorite color on canvas is nudity.
Beauty is beautiful. That’s the beauty of beauty.
Nothing is certain but death and taxidermy.
I was fashionably late in my unfashionable clothes.
I belong, and my penis, it be long.
Thoughtlessness—I try not to think about it.
Twitter—up to the minute minute details.
There are no ordinary moments.
I'm pretty much an open book.
I look at every book as a self-help book.
