Reading was my escape and my comfort, my consolation, my stimulant of choice: reading for the pure pleasure of it, for the beautiful stillness that s….

I ain't from Africa. I'm from St. Louis..

Reading, reading actively, strengthens the soul..

Contrary to all those times you've heard a writer confess at a reading that he writes fiction because he is a pathological liar, fiction writing is a….

If you would tell me the heart of a man, tell me not what he reads, but what he rereads..

If nobody talks about books, if they are not discussed or somehow contended with, literature ceases to be a conversation, ceases to be dynamic. Most ….

Accidental stacks considered harmful..

I think I'm still fed by my childhood experience of reading, even though obviously I'm reading many books now and a lot of them are books for childre….

Too-broad questions, such as, "What's on your mind?" are apt to be answered "nothing" nearly one hundred percent of the time. Be careful of slipping ….

Writing this book required an enormous amount of help from friends. To them goes the credit. I'll take the money..

The reading of books, what is it but conversing with the wisest men of all ages and all countries..

I was reading William Shawcross's biography of the Queen Mother, dressed in my witch outfit! And you know what? It was a really good mix; it was a th….

It's never over till it's over with a friend..

Stand-up is something I just truly love to do, so I'll always go back to it. I'll never stop doing it, that's for sure..

The day you stop learning is the day you begin decaying..

Cornelius Cardew's folk songs were very, very literal, and they were just about workers smashing their chains. It was like reading Das Kapital over a….

For we put the thought of all that we love into all that we make..

I always read. You know how sharks have to keep swimming or they die? I’m like that. If I stop reading, I die..

The delights of reading impart the vivacity of youth even to old age..

The days passed, as they do, and life went on..

To slide into the domed reading room at ten each morning, specially in summer, off the hot street outside, was a sensation as delicious as dropping i….