I have never squandered an opportunity to read..

Great writers say things that are so beautiful, the very act of repeating them makes life itself more beautiful..

Martin Scorcese is probably America's greatest living director, and while he is not a titan like John Ford or Alfred Hitchcock or Federico Fellini, h….

Saddling another person with a book he did not ask for has always seemed to me like a huge psychological imposition, like forcing someone to eat a ch….

Every life, even the best ones, ends in sadness. Books hold out hope that things may end otherwise..

It was once argued that 'Starring Sylvester Stallone' were the three scariest words in the English language but until I saw Adam Sandler I'd always t….

On this side of the Atlantic, the arrival of a new Woody Allen movie is always greeted with tremors of bliss by filmgoers past the age of 60, with mi….

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it's probably because at some level you find 'reality' a bit of a disappointment..

Electronic books are ideal for people who value the information contained in them, or who have vision problems, or who like to read on the subway, or….

Incapable of conjuring up any facial expression that she did not learn from watching television, Jessica Alba plays a brilliant scientist who inadver….

Purists maintain that if you go to a baseball game you will almost always see something you have never seen before. Unfortunately, it usually takes p….

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons..

I was raised as a Catholic and received the body and blood of Jesus Christ every Sunday at communion until I was thirty years of age, when I became a….

Book lovers are engaged with writers in a private communion that occurs in some vaporous cenacle of the mind..

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in 'Dracula' is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of ye….

It is never a good sign when the most exciting thing on television is a dancing Republican..

Lars is played by Ryan Gosling, the Prince of Tics, whose idea of acting is to wait a few beats before reacting to other people's remarks, as if acti….

Reading is the way mankind delays the inevitable. Reading is the way we shake our fist at the sky. As long as we have these epic, improbable reading ….

People who prefer e-books...think that books merely take up space. This is true, but so do your children and Prague and the Sistine Chapel..

The world is changing, but I am not changing with it. There is no e-reader or Kindle in my future. My philosophy is simple: Certain things are perfec….

People who need to possess the physical copy of a book, and not merely an electronic version, are in some sense mysteics. We believe that the objects….