I have the Sony Reader; I have the Kindle as well. I don't really use either of them, to be honest. I'd rather sit down with a cup of coffee and a ne….

We live at a time that is notable for the polemical nature of discussions about identity, consciousness, rationality, agency, memory, and feeling. 'N….

Wondering whether Christianity is real is not the same as wondering whether Christianity is true. If you question the truth of Christianity, you can ….

I think I must write a book. It has been my cherished dream and I feel an influence that I cannot resist calling me to the task..

I like to wear things, I don't like things to wear me..

With the Holocaust - I wonder if a lot of Jewish writers of my generation have felt this way - it feels really intimidating to approach it. I feel li….

I shudder to think of an eternity spend without books. I have hopes that every book that was ever lost is somewhere waiting for me when my life here ….

The mistake...was attributed in part to the fact that employees called the 3-year note 'Losh' and the 5-year note 'Bosh'. The comic mixing of 'Loshes….

When I came out, and for many years afterwards, it had become a habit for me to sit and read and read and read, like an obsession. I would take 20 bo….

What keeps this industry alive is creators doing their own work. Once you change a costume or origin enough times, it's a dead body - you're just ele….

If you are thinking, you can't understand Zen. Anything that can be written in a book, anything that can be said - all this is thinking . . . but if ….

One book that has meant much to my writing is W.G. Sebald's The Emigrants. He uses a photograph of Vladimir Nabokov hunting butterflies in a similar ….

I was also an Action Comic fan when I was a young kid and those comic books affected me and Superman is - he's the one. He's the first one. He's the ….

The best data we have [concerning the Big Bang] are exactly what I would have predicted, had I nothing to go on but the five books of Moses, the Psal….

The most important things in our intimate lives can't be discussed with strangers, except in books..

I am not a Frenchie, I'm a Belgie!.

Translators who choose to work on canonized writers can usually lean on an extensive critical apparatus around either the author or the book in quest….

Religion embarrasses the commentators. It is offbounds. An editor of the old Life magazine once assigned me a book on religion with remark that I was….

What a glut of books! Who can read them?.

The reason that the book exists is because there was a gap in you. You wrote the book to fulfill that gap in some way..

All of the disparate books on my list contain characters, scenes or voices that linger long past the last page of their stories..