That is one of the functions of art: to present what the narrow and desperately practical perspectives of real life exclude.

The literary man re-reads, other men simply read.

Men do not long continue to think what they have forgotten how to say.

I am not sure that the best way to make a boy love the English poets might not be forbid him to read them and then make sure that he had plenty of opportunities to disobey you.

It is very rarely that a middle-aged man finds an author who gives him, what he knew so often in his teens and twenties, the sense of having opened a new door.

To be stories at all they must be a series of events: but it must be understood that this series - the plot, as we call it - is only really a new whereby to catch something else.

We have more choice than ever before about where and how we buy and read books.

Search and see if there is not some place where you may invest your humanity.

We'll find out soon enough," Xavier growled. "You don't see too many V Star 250s around here" "How do you know the bike model?" I asked. "I'm a boy. We like engines

I guess you can look at me, and tell I'm the old man. My name is BB King.

One of the best ways to make yourself happy is to make other people happy. One of the best ways to make other people happy is to be happy yourself.

One thing I hope I'll never be is drunk with my own power. And anybody who says I am will never work in this town again.

Blasphemy? No, it is not blashphemy. If God is as vast as that, he is above blasphemy; if he is as little as that, He is beneath it.

I am remarkably pleased with Obama. I had grave misgivings about him.

In war, only the simple succeeds.

Today was not about times, it was about getting in there, enjoying the race, and enjoying the atmosphere