Reading just had a great five-man move that involved everyone..
I don't really consider myself to be famous..
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself. You bring to a novel, anything you read, all your experience of the world. You bring your history ….
Reading a book is like re-writing it for yourself..
You can come back to friendship. You can let it drop, for five years or ten years, and come back to it..
As Americans, we do love punishment..
I am doing what I love to do..
Now I have to motivate myself much more than I had previously..
Never be shamed of being Afrikan.
I was given permission to serve myself Communion, with wine and a wafer, on the surface on the Moon. But I was advised not to say anything about it a….
The only thing better than good English writing is - I can't think of anything. You just don't pour it pureed over your potatoes. You savor it as if ….
Everybody is entertained to death..
The truth is we're all probably more creative than we realize, except we spend our lives watching TV or reading somebody else's book. We never pick u….
I watched a lot of movies. I was deeply influenced by movies..
I've concluded that I learned far more from my failures than from my successes..
I feel that movies are gifts that come to you, and there are no accidents in what you end up doing..
My favorite is always the book that I'm currently reading..
I am not a fatalist. I have just been reading War and Peace and Tolstoy is such a fatalist. I think people can make a difference... I am an optimist ….
Growing up, my parents managed to show me the importance of reading without cramming it down my throat. A difficult task, I'm sure. It breaks my hear….
Presidents today spend more time speaking than they do reading or thinking..
I don't personally try to balance my work because I operate under the assumption that anyone reading or watching my stuff isn't having a particularly….