books

"It is certain that a book is not harmless merely because no one is consciously offended by it."

"Well, Fitz, I looked all through that bible, it was in very fine print and stumbling on that great book Ecclesiastics, read it aloud to all who would listen. Soon I was alone and began cursing the blo…"

"I had been reading Michelle Alexander’s book The New Jim Crow, which talks about mass incarceration and mass incarceration being the new Jim Crow. But I really believe education is also the new Jim Cr…"

"I was glad to get away from those students when I was awarded a Fulbright Fellowship to study in London. I found myself in the British Museum, at first content, reading English Renaissance literature.…"

"Businessmen have not shied away from the responsibility implied in Emerson's famous definition of a business as the lengthening shadow of a man. They have readily brushed aside complications and assig…"

"Although Lewis Carroll thought of The Hunting of the Snark as a nonsense ballad for children, it is hard to imagine—in fact one shudders to imagine—a child of today reading and enjoying it."

"Barack Obama Remembers Chadwick Boseman's Visit To White House To Work With Kids: 'He Was Blessed'" by Matthew Aguilar, at Comicbook.com"

"Barger thought Hunter provoked Junkie George so that the beating could be used as a gimmick to promote the book."

"To limit the press is to insult a nation; to prohibit reading of certain books is to declare the inhabitants to be either fools or slaves: such a prohibition ought to fill them with disdain."

"We judge ourselves by what we feel capable of doing, while others judge us by what we have already done."

"No serious coverage of taxes is possible without reading the journal Tax Notes published by, a nonprofit enterprise whose beneficiaries include reporters."

"The liberal who happens to be a Hindu is so apologetic, he has internalized sham secularism so much, he is in any case so innocent of the texts—of Islam, of Hinduism, of our laws and our Constitution—…"

"The thing that I think very striking is that no one, or no one I can remember, ever writes of an execution with approval.  The dominant note is always horror.  Society, apparently, cannot get along wi…"

"As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier."

"In some ways she was not a very good scientist: impatient with data, too ready to leap to conclusions, apt to judge an idea not by its merits but by its sheer niftiness."

"From the moment I picked up your book until I laid it down, I was convulsed with laughter. Someday I intend reading it."

"Every text assumes a reader."

"This story of loss and regaining of identity is, I think, the framework of all literature."

"THIS BOOK is not about reengineering; it is about reengineering’s consequences, about its aftermath and its abiding legacy."

"I reread that book in the summer of '03. . . . And I hadn't looked at that book either since '91. And I was dreading it. I thought it was going to be a really terrible novel. Everything everyone had e…"