I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Once Dwight Eisenhower makes up his mind, he's full of indecision.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility; there are so few of us left.

Strip away the phony tinsel of Hollywood and you'll find the real tinsel underneath.

I've given up reading books. I find it takes my mind off myself.

The only difference between the Democrats and the Republicans is that the Democrats allow the poor to be corrupt, too.

Behind the phony tinsel of Hollywood lies the real tinsel.

I have no trouble with y enemies. But my god damn friends... they are the ones that keep me walking the floors at night.

Roses are red, violets are blue, I'm schizophrenic, and so am I.

I can remember Doris Day before she was a virgin.

There are two sides to every question: my side and the wrong side.

I have given up reading books; I find it takes my mind off myself.

Underneath this flabby exterior is an enormous lack of character.

Happiness isn't something you experience; it's something you remember.

Every time I look at you I get a fierce desire to be lonesome.

I am no more humble than my talents require.

I'm a study of a man in chaos in search of frenzy.

I don't drink. I don't like it. It makes me feel good.

Schizophrenia beats dining alone.

I knew Doris Day before she was a virgin.

I think a lot of Bernstein - but not as much as he does.

So little time and so little to do.

Once I make up my mind, I'm full of indecision.

A politician is a man who will double cross that bridge when he comes to it.

There's a fine line between genius and insanity. I have erased this line.

I envy people who drink - at least they know what to blame everything on.

Ballet is the fairies baseball.

I envy people who drink. At least they have something to blame everything on.

What the world needs is more geniuses with humility. There are so few of us left.

It's not what your are, it's what you don't become that hurts.

There were a lot of adventure books for boys, historical novels by Kenneth Roberts, and whatever mystery novels the alarmed librarian imagined might not corrupt an eager but innocent youth.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

It is the interest one takes in books that makes a library. And if a library have interest it is; if not, it isn't.

I enjoy about 1 out of 100 movies, it's about the same proportion to books published that I care to read.

I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood.

It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.

The proper study of mankind is books.

I have written about 10 books, all just practical encouragement for moms.

Whites were the winners, blacks were the losers, we wrote the history books, and they didn't feature.

Good books, like good friends, are few and chosen; the more select, the more enjoyable.

You could say, in a vulgar Freudian way, that I am the unhappy child who escapes into books. Even as a child, I was most happy being alone. This has not changed.

Jewish villages were built in the place of Arab villages. You do not even know the names of these Arab villages, and I do not blame you because geography books no longer exist.

As I have studied the Bible and the Book of Mormon, I have come to know through the power of the Spirit of God, that these books contain the fullness of the gospel of Jesus Christ.

There are some friends you don't meet for twenty years and when you meet them again it's as if no twenty years has happened - you're lucky when that happens. I feel the same about books.

Then I found books that were written much later, as late as 15 years ago. It was very superficial material, but enough to tell me that the genesis of this story was worth exploring.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

Well, it was actually - I brought the idea of doing a documentary to HBO back in 2000, when there were some press reports sort of were bandied about that there were going to TV movies based on some of the books that were out.

In my subconscious, my books were part of a single emotional journey.

I get letters from readers who say that they have always hated reading, but somebody suggested one of my books, they actually finished the book and enjoyed it, and they're going on to read another book. I'm thrilled that they have figured out that reading is fun.