I'm not a great shopper but I do buy a lot of books. I'm the publishers' friend - I buy a hundred books a year and read four..

When you care about perfection, you care about an expectation. But there is also caring for where I am right now, for what's happening right now. Whe….

Big book, a big bore..

A big book is a big misfortune..

A great book is like great evil..

Nothing unattested do I sing..

As a child I loved fantasy books, I loved Harry Potter and the idea that there is something 'out there' is inspiring to kids and inspiring to me. It'….

I can think of no habit, kept up through the years, that binds a married couple more than that of reading good books together. Domestic problems and ….

You make history when you do business..

We are not always totally happy about how we are portrayed..

An Italian piazza was my vision - a place where people would come and meet, see an exhibition, browse through books, have a drink, eat, rest, shop. E….

Now, almost twenty years since my last job in book publishing, I know that there are far more socially inept people in book than in magazine publishi….

To see what they see, sit where they sit..

We get a better book when everyone's allowed to do their best work on it. I don't want to prevent anybody from bringing their ideas to a project..

This is what books only aimed to do and never could. Give you the glint of someone else's sunrise, what living is really like, you get old and it hur….

Unequal Democracy is the sort of book to which every political scientist should aspire--it is methodologically rigorous, conceptually serious, and ab….

I started to earn money because we didn't have money..

Having your health is having everything in life..

I've always loved words. I ate up all the books I could get my hands on, and when I couldn't get books, I read candy wrappers and labels on cereal an….

To be in the 1% you have to do what the 99% won't..

You must understand, I don't have to be happy to be happy..