When you're reading some of the great plays, when you do what I call "taking up with a writer," something happens..

You owe it to yourself to live beautifully. And I am..

I like that best as I am so hairy..

Things ain't like they say they be, but they do!.

All money is essentially merchandize..

Anthropology is separated from mass reading, and that is something that bothered Margaret Mead. She always said that she wrote everything for her gra….

Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else..

You can't do better than that..

I do think poetry needs to invite the reader, especially when there are so many other distractions while reading..

I devoured books like a person taking vitamins, afraid that otherwise I would remain this gelatinous narcissist, with no possibility of ever becoming….

For such a long time, when you're a writer, you really are just writing for yourself, and maybe a few friends. So it's really amazing when your book ….

happy all life for ever.

It is almost impossible to open a newspaper without reading something about the London housing market. House prices are rising at such a rate that th….

Live theatre for children is right up there in importance with reading aloud. It used to be part of our heritage many years ago and we've lost it and….

A high-ranking Syrian official in DC laughed when he heard I was reading Michel Aflaq and writing this book. He said, "Let me tell you something. The….

Reading gave me hope..

I don't get to watch a lot of TV. I just do all my news and reading and "Meet the Press," all that fun, exciting stuff..

Since I worked with Danny Boyle before on Slumdog Millionaire, we have great success and everything. So, when I first got the script and the screenpl….

I’m reading! I don’t want to be disturbed!.

Children enter school as question marks and leave as periods..

The Genealogical Science is a wonderful account of how old-fashioned race science has come to be re-defined by resort to the most recent developments….