Bookstores will not disappear but will exploit digital technologies to increase their virtual and physical inventories, and perhaps become publishers themselves.

Editors and their authors seldom form deep friendships for the same reason that psychiatrists and their patients keep their distance: The relationship requires candor that mixes poorly with intimacy.

By the mid 1970s, the great downtown bookstores had begun to disappear as their customers migrated from city to suburb where population density was too thin to support major backlist retailers.

Humor and paradox are often the only ways to respond to life's sorrow with grace.

Our kiss eclipses all others, real, imagine, dreamed of. It is the beginning of time, it is the end of the ages.

Haven’t you learned yet? Someone has to be the villain so everyone else can stay alive.

You discover yourself through the research of your work.

Pessimism leads to weakness, optimism to power.

... a curious superstition. This is the belief that, if there be introspection at all, it must give exhaustive and infallible information.

When we come to a clearer and more sober estimate of our own limitations and responsibilities, that makes it possible more genuinely to love our neighbor.

Me rapping over other people's beats doesn't mean as much as when Lil Wayne does it - no matter how hard I'm going in.

The reaction to this album has just been fabulous around the world... and I've had offers to perform from around the world and I'm tempted to do it. I've got itchy lips.

Often in television, you read a script and you're amazed that you get the scene given to you.