I like to be counted on..

On film, it's really nice to see that transformation from the beginning, reading the script, to know where he starts and where he ends, and be able t….

Women are the only correspondents to be depended on..

Never hope for it more than you work for it..

. . . the circumference of life cannot be rightly drawn until the center is set..

It's tempting to say the Ph.D. didn't have an effect, but it's not so. I think whatever resonance I may be able to achieve is in part simply from the….

It was through reading that I discovered the crucial, even sacrosanct place the rituals of drinking held in the American imagination - the ingenious ….

But an experienced reader is also a self-aware and critical reader. I can't remember ever reading a story without judging it..

You're never going to learn everything..

Spending one hour with Isaias is far more worthwhile, rewarding and enlightening than reading ten books.

In books I have traveled, not only to other worlds, but into my own..

I feel lucky that I read so many books as a kid because I know that no matter how much I appreciate a book now, and I can love a book very much, it's….

One truly understands only what one can create..

The ability to read awoke inside of me some long dormant craving to be mentally alive..

I began reading in French. I didn't read in English until high school..

A good poem about failure is a success..

I love to read, and so I've been reading everything I can, not intensely, but I love to read so I read "Origin of Species" by Darwin and I can't make….

I work whenever I'm let..

A lot of things are going right. More is going right than wrong, for sure..

It can never be necessary to do what is not honourable..

I take all of my music seriously and personally..