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.

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.

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

She counted each second, each moment of life stolen from her, moving her closer to death.

Man can transform his life, when he renewed his thinking.

It is better to be hated for what you are than loved for what you are not.

All the men on my staff can type.

You want to have a future where you’re expecting things to be better, not one where you’re expecting things to be worse.

I have no desire to walk on water," said Siddhartha. "Let the old shamans satisfy themselves with such skills".

My understanding of God has come from my own personal experiences. Because I was in trouble so many times in New York that if you were me, you would believe in God too.

the power of beauty:what must the world be like for ugly women?

I think you should do rehearsal and work at it, but when the camera rolls, you should be ready. Try to make it good the first time.

I am aware that by many persons, it is considered in the nature of a joke to to become a candidate and to be elected as a member of the Legislature.