It's very difficult for a black man to get out of South-Central Los Angeles, and get out civilized....The only men I know who have escaped, all began….

I love Jane [Krakowski]. Jane's been a dear friend for maybe a dozen years. We've worked together on many shows and concerts and readings. We did 'Da….

It is always a poor way of reading the hearts of others to try to conceal our own. [Fr., C'est toujours un mauvais moyen de lire dans le coeur des au….

I love melodrama. I love the simple fact. When you read Euripides he's a page turner. It's like reading a Mexican comic book romance..

Anyone who reads a book with a sense of obligation does not understand the art of reading..

You know that feeling,” she said, “when you are reading a book, and you know that it is going to be a tragedy; you can feel the cold and darkness com….

When I got to college, I planned to be a math major, and, in addition to signing up for some math courses, I decided to take some philosophy. Quite b….

Eating and reading are two pleasures that combine admirably..

A book you finish reading is not the same book it was before you read it..

Okay. how about that time when you smoked all that weed that you thought was laced with something? You fell into the tub, but you refused to get out ….

No matter how tight the shot is, if I'm narrating it too much, there's a barrier between you and the experience, because the process of reading a boo….

I have spent many, many hours reading J.K. Rowling's work. I am a known 'Harry Potter' fan..

Buy good books, and read them; the best books are the commonest, and the last editions are always the best, if the editors are not blockheads..

I never really liked poetry readings; I liked to read poetry by myself, but I liked singing, chanting my lyrics to this jazz group..

I have read various articles on the fourth dimension, the relativity theory of Einstein, and other psychological speculation on the constitution of t….

I did a weird thing when I was about 24. For four years I had written quite a lot of poetry, and I started reading through it and thought some of it ….

At the age of three I began to look around my grandfather's library. My first knowledge of astronomy came from reading and looking at pictures at tha….

Avoid stock expressions (like the plague, as William Safire used to say) and repetitions. Don't say that as a boy your grandmother used to read to yo….

Hypocrite reader my fellow my brother!.

The useless days will add up to something. The shitty waitressing jobs. The hours writing in your journal. The long meandering walks. The hours readi….

But in reading great literature I become a thousand men and yet remain myself. Like the night sky in the Greek poem, I see with a myriad eyes, but it….