I love Israel, I go back all the time. I just love New York a little more. My workers are Arabs, my best friend is a black man from Alabama, my girlfriend's a Puerto Rican, and my landlord is a half-Jew bastard. You know what I did this morning? I re...
But I got through the review, for all their Latin and French; I did, and if you doubt me, you just look at the end of the great ledger, turn it upside down, and you'll find I've copied out all the fine words they said of you: "careful observer," "str...
Jean: Nemo, do I matter to you? I'd just like to ask you one question. Did you do it on purpose? I found this on the bedside table. [reads note] Jean: There comes a time in life where everything seems narrow. Choices have been made. I can only contin...
Bart: [Bart dresses himself as a carnival barker and stands beside a wishing-well] ... Step right up, ladies and gentlemen and... Mongos! Dive, dive, dive for buried treasure! This is the exact spot where the Spanish Armada was sunk by the British Na...
As important as your obligations as a doctor, lawyer or business leader will be, you are a human being first. And these human connections with spouse, with children and with friends are the most important investments you will ever make. At the end of...
I just need to sit, think, write and read.
Reading to small children is a specialty.
All readers have reading in common.
No book, however good, can survive a hostile reading.
Men ought to read the Bible and hear God speak.
I grew up in a very religious family. I could read the Qu'ran easily at the age of five.
I was reading about an age pill that has been developed which they claim will make you live longer. That is not for me.
From age 16, I lived and breathed wine. I read every magazine and book about wine.
What I was reading was already part of my psyche, but finally someone else was saying it's okay to walk alone.
I feel less alone when I read the books of Ratzinger.
All alone in a committee room of the Senate Office Building in Washington, I was reading the dry typewritten pages in an unpublished report of an almost forgotten congressional committee hearing.
Books are in no hurry. An act of creation is in no hurry; it reads us, it privileges us infinitely. The notion that it is the occasion for our cleverness fills me with baffled bitterness and anger.
I read your diary. I KNOW.
Who wants a library full of books you've already read?
I shall not be lonely. No one who reads is ever that.
I shall remain on Mars and read a book.
