The problem with the English Patient is that to enjoy it, you have to be either English or patient.

A friend once told me that the real message Bram Stoker sought to convey in ‘Dracula’ is that a human being needs to live hundreds and hundreds of years to get all his reading done;...

He (Corrigan) has re-united the county (with the three championship wins). He has done a good job and I am happy with his performance – he is a gentleman to work with.

If you have read 6,000 books in your lifetime, or even 600, it’s probably because at some level you find ‘reality’ a bit of a disappointment.

I don’t understand that, because nobody, like, 18 owns a house or a Lexus,

Because to the poor, books are not diversions. Book are siege weapons.

It can help protect the market in times of crisis. Instead of shutting down all trade, it helps you respond to the situation at hand.

A friend tells a story about taking his ten-year-old son to a Jets game. The game was being played during a driving rain on a freezing cold day, and the Jets lost by twenty points...

Lending books to other people is merely a shrewd form of housecleaning.

Taylor ushered in the poisonous concept of soft rock.

That’s the thing that always gets me. We have to have football, because you reach young guys who drink beer.

No matter how much you improve something that is basically an unpleasant experience, it’s an unpleasant experience.

Collins is a bald, bland Englishman who writes interchangeably uninteresting songs.

No artist has ever remained as consistently bad for such a long time.