books

"I don't know what to do or where to turn in this taxation matter. Somewhere there must be a book that tells all about it, where I could go to straighten it out in my mind. But I don't know where the b…"

"Can no way be found by which every man may be assured of what, let us remember, Tolstoy always had, a wife and children, a good bed, a safe and warm sheltering roof, proper clothes, some leisure and p…"

"After the election, antifa stepped up their violence even though it appeared that Democratic presidential nominee Joe Biden had won over Donald Trump. On November 4, 2020, several hundred antifa gathe…"

"To be honest, I haven't even seen the film yet. Tobey, if you're reading this, I apologize."

"At present I'm re-reading Traherne's Centuries of Meditations which I think almost the most beautiful book in English."

"Even where it is manipulated by major talents, deconstruction tends to bear either on marginal texts , or on secondary work by a great writer . The classics of deconstruction, in Jacques Derrida or Pa…"

"A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable image…"

"I was giving a reading at some university. Down in the front row of the auditorium was a young lady in a leather microskirt and a leather microbolero, tied with a leather bootlace, and nothing else wh…"

"Believe me, no one wants to finish this book more than me."

"I rarely go back to a book, since I never feel sufficiently caught up in my own work. However, a few years ago, on a stalled expedition, I had an opportunity to reread The Idiot, which I’ve always tho…"

"I never think of poetry or the poetry scene, only separate poems written by individuals."

"A Monk of Fife Complete Book Online"

"It amazes me that filmmakers will still film, and audiences will still watch, relationships so bankrupt of human feeling that the characters could be reading dialogue written by a computer."

"I want to build this business as long as the customers will keep eating my sandwiches."

"There is one way, and only one, of correctly reading a Latin hexameter. There may be three or four ways of reading an English blank verse line. I venture to say that no two mortals ever read aloud any…"

"No book critic has ever tried to assess the Old Testament. Maybe they should. I did once. It's a crap story and it's very badly written."

"The best poetry written in our generation in the British Isles has been in Scottish Gaelic, by Sorley MacLean."

"Il lato positivo - Silver Linings Playbook"

"I was over in Australia during Easter, which was really interesting. You know, they celebrate Easter the exact same way we do, commemorating the death and resurrection of Jesus by telling our children…"

"Dear Reader: The title of this book is composed of three words from my novel Cat's Cradle. A wampeter is an object around which the lives of many otherwise unrelated people may revolve. The Holy Grail…"