The smell of a freshly printed book is the best smell in the world.
I’ve only wanted paper and beautiful colors. It was my dream, and it still is my dream. And books. They’re all I need, and the rest I can do without.
Because I stopped dieting already six months ago, and I think it’s important to bring out a book like this and you are there a year later and say look, I’m still like this.
I’m not a social person. Not that I’m not at ease. I’m pretty good, but it bores me. Not the people, but the whole thing. What for? It’s not very productive. I only want to do what I have to do: fashion, photography, books. And that’s all.
If you attach no importance to weight problems, if not being able to wear new, trendy small-sized clothes does not cause you any regret, this book is not for you.
A book has to be easy to open and you don’t have to be a bodybuilder to lift it. I like books I can read in bed. Those big tombstones would kill me.
I am a machine condemned to devour books.
I am stretching out this volume, since those German dogs estimate the value of books by their cubic contents.
I’m scared. I’m excited. I’m ready for whatever happens but I think that fame is what comes along with the territory when you open yourself up and become this story, this book for anyone to read.
I really like to look like a history book. I can look 1940s, I can look 1970s hippie-chic, or sometimes I’ll pull that ’80s Brooklyn hip-hop kid with the door-knocker earrings.
God created music as a common language for all men. It inspires the poets, the composers and the architects. It lures us to search our souls for the meaning of the mysteries described in ancient books.
Learn the words of wisdom uttered by the wise and apply them in your own life. Live them – but do not a make a show of reciting them, for he who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass loaded with books.
He who repeats what he does not understand is no better than an ass that is loaded with books.
Everything comes to him who waits, except a loaned book.
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these and envision the eruption of Mount Vesuvius or the Battle of Waterloo.
There is no shortage of wonderful writers. What we lack is a dependable mass of readers.
There is no beginning, no middle, no end, no suspense, no moral, no causes, no effects. What we love in our books are the depths of many marvelous moments seen all at one time.
I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That’s why I served in World War II, and that’s why I wrote books.
Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.