Whatever hardships there have been in my life I still live in a very privileged position. Fear is not knowing where your next meal is coming from. Fe….

Only in today's sick society can a man be persecuted for reading too many books..

Do I feel famous? I feel more famous than I did 10 years ago, absolutely..

Motion is a great tranquilizer..

Someone once wrote that in between the lives we lead and the lives we fantasize about living is the place in our heads where most of us actually live..

The future did not arrive..

Studs Lonigan, on the verge of fifteen, and wearing his first suit of long trousers, stood in the bathroom with a Sweet Caporal pasted on his mug..

Any book is a self-help guide if you can take something from it..

MAY it please your Honors: I was desired by one of the court to look into the books, and consider the question now before them concerning Writs of As….

What someone calls my books is irrelevant to me. I consider them works of art and rules and categories and labels mean nothing..

I think a book is your calling card, your business card..

Life was good, one had only to live it..

The best religion is the most tolerant..

It's funny: I spend time in the book criticizing social media, but I'm also aware that a lot of my success is because of social media. I can broadcas….

Child! do not throw this book about Refrain from the unholy pleasure Of cutting all the pictures out! Preserve it as your chiefest treasure..

A good book is always on tap; it may be decanted and drunk a hundred times, and it is still there for further imbibement..

I would rather be politically dead than hypocritically immortalized..

There are few greater temptations on earth than to stay permanently at Oxford in meditation, and to read all the books in the Bodlean..

It takes no courage to say or do what's popular..

Eminem is the greatest, ever..

We get things wrong before we get things right..