I'm OK with being the Old Spice Guy because before I was the Old Spice Guy I was the guy looking for work on his couch.
Calling a book "Young Adult" is just a fancy way of saying the book is censored. People used to say they like to read books about romance, true crime, comedy, horror or science fiction. But these days people simply say they like to read "Young Adult"...
Growing up loving the Bible made me apt to love other books. I don't love them in the same way I love the Bible, but a lesser love came easily. The splendor of sunlight does not take away
My ears become my conduit to the world. In the darkness I listen—to thrillers, to detective novels, to romances; to family sagas, potboilers and historical novels; to ghost stories and classic fiction and chick lit; to bonkbusters and history books...
The paradox of reading is that the path toward ourselves passes through books, but that this must remain a passage. It is a traversal of books that a good reader engages in - a reader who knows that every book is the bearer of part of himself and can...
We have no time to waste on insignificant books, hollow books, books that are there to please... We want books that cost their authors a great deal, books where you can feel the years of work, the backache, the writer's block, the author's panic at t...
The would-be students wish to transcend books. But, ask yourselves: if someone says that books do not contain wisdom, and yet he writes books; books do not contain Sufism, and yet he continues to publish books on Sufism, what is really happening? It ...
In books I find the dead as if they were alive; in books I foresee things to come; in books warlike affairs are set forth; from books come forth the laws of peace. All things are corrupted and decay in time; Saturn ceases not to devour the children t...
The old dog barks while he is sitting down.
Talking of an old debt always starts another quarrel.
Young pigs grunt as old pigs grunted before them.
Children suck the mother when they are young and the father when they are old.
High climbers and deep swimmers never grow old.
If you want to be old, hang yourself when you are young.
The best way to learn to ride is on an old bike.
There is no nail varnish that can make old hands look younger.
Time heals old pain, while it creates new ones.
Better to wash an old kimono than borrow a new one.
A day-old pigeon cannot fly over a mountain pass.
A poor old horse will have a worn out tail.
Old soldiers never die, they simply fade away.
