They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

I've done the most awful rubbish in order to have somewhere to go in the morning.

Indeed he knows not how to know who knows not also how to un-know.

If you're going to make rubbish, be the best rubbish in it.

You may be as vicious about me as you please. You will only do me justice.

An actor is something less than a man, while an actress is something more than a woman.

The Welsh are all actors. It's only the bad ones who become professional.

Travelers are like poets. They are mostly an angry race.

I might run from her for a thousand years and she is still my baby child. Our love is so furious that we burn each other out.

They lard their lean books with the fat of others work.

When I played drunks I had to remain sober because I didn't know how to play them when I was drunk.

A man that hoards up riches and enjoys them not, is like an ass that carries gold and eats thistles.

How strange are the tricks of memory, which, often hazy as a dream about the most important events of a man's life, religiously preserve the merest trifles.

False friendship, like the ivy, decays and ruins the walls it embraces; but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

The more I study religions the more I am convinced that man never worshipped anything but himself.

Little islands are all large prisons: one cannot look at the sea without wishing for the wings of a swallow.

This diamond has so many carats it's almost a turnip.

Every word I write I suspect the next day.

How do you live with one person for 13 years and another for eight and find both as alien as strangers?

How terrible a thing time is.

I abhor mere prettiness.

I am as dispassionate as it is possible for a human being to be and not be a machine.

I hate myself and my face in particular.

It is impossible to tell you what is consisted in the act of love.

Let's have days and days of brilliant clarity, etched and limpid, cool and surgical.

Sometimes I am so much my father's son that I give myself occasional creeps.

Warren Beatty seems very self-conscious and actory.

What an extraordinary world it is.

This diamond has so many carats its almost a turnip.

False friendship like the ivy decays and ruins the walls it embraces but true friendship gives new life and animation to the object it supports.

Rugby is a wonderful show: dance, opera and, suddenly, the blood of a killing.

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.