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I read the fuck out of every book I can get my hands on.

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You're not allowed to say anything about books because they're books, and books are, you know, God.

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I’m not the smartest guy in the world, but I’m certainly not the dumbest. I mean, I’ve read books like "The Unbearable Lightness of Being" and "Love i...more

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A while back, when Dick & Barry & I agreed that what really matters is what you like, not what you *are* like, Barry proposed the idea of a questionna...more

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And what would happen if we never read the classics? There comes a point in life, it seems to me, where you have to decide whether you're a Person of ...more

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I would like my personal reading map to resemble a map of the British Empire circa 1900.

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In other words, it's one of those books you thrust on your partner with an incredulous cry of "This is me!

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We are never allowed to forget that some books are badly written; we should remember that sometimes they're badly read, too.

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All the books we own, both read and unread, are the fullest expression of self we have at our disposal. ... But with each passing year, and with each ...more

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Books are, let's face it, better than everything else. If we played Cultural Fantasy Boxing League, and made books go fifteen rounds in the ring again...more

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(about organizing books in his home library, and putting a book in the "Arts and Lit non-fiction section)I personally find that for domestic purposes,...more

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I don't want anyone writing in to point out that I spend too much money on books, many of which I will never read. I know that already. I certainly in...more