The difference between the true and the false is only a prejudice of ours.

It's better not to know authors personally, because the real person never corresponds to the image you form of him from reading his books.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

Nobody these days holds the written word in such high esteem as police states do.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

...eyes that, like those of children, look at an eternal present without forgiveness.

the cemetery is the home of those who are not here, come in.

Reading is solitude.

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

The skin of her face, parched by the monotonous dietof salty rain, with tremendous effortgave wayto a smile.

None of us can estimate what we do when we do it from instinct.

I guess in society there's no place for women in their older thirties. We're supposed to go sit on a shelf at some point... and wait.

I'm not thinking about my numbers. I'm just trying to do the best I can to help the team win.

Any general statement is like a check drawn on a bank. Its value depends on what is there to meet it.

The primary place where most people lose energy is in their relationships with others. That means you lose your energy in your interactions with the people you know best.

When we hew or delve: After-comers cannot guess the beauty been.

What isn't part of ourselves doesn't disturb us.

I'd rather be a non-All-Star playing in the Western Conference finals than an All-Star who's sitting at home in May.

I may be a rebel, but I am not an outsider.