I didn't go to bookshops to buy. That's a little bourgeois. I went because they were civilized places. It made me happy there were people who sat down and wrote and wrote and wrote and there were other people who devoted their lives to making those words into books. It was lovely. Like standing in the middle of civilization.
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JERRY SEINFELD Men don't care what's on TV. They only care what else is on TV. JERRY SEINFELD A two-year-old is kind of like having a blender, but you don't have a top for it. JERRY SEINFELD The Four Levels of Comedy: Make your friends laugh, Make strangers laugh, Get paid to make strangers... JERRY SEINFELD To me, if life boils down to one thing, it's movement. To live is to keep moving. JERRY SEINFELD My theory is 98 percent of all human endeavor is killing time. JERRY SEINFELD I am so busy doing nothing... that the idea of doing anything - which as you know, always leads to s... JERRY SEINFELD We want to do a lot of stuff; we're not in great shape. We didn't get a good night's sle... JERRY SEINFELD Pay attention, don't let life go by you. Fall in love with the back of your cereal box. JERRY SEINFELD Summer is a great time to visit art museums, which offer the refreshing rinse of swimming pools - on... JERRY SALTZ Ideas come from ordinary, everyday life. And from imagination. And from feelings. And from memories.... JERRY SPINELLI You look at Superman, the story of an orphan coming to America, keeping his identity secret and even... JERRY ROBINSON After 1909, Monet drastically enlarged his brushstrokes, disintegrated his images, and broke through... JERRY SALTZ Hollywood never knew there was a Vietnam War until they made the movie. JERRY STILLER Ice cream is the perfect buffer, because you can do things in a somewhat lighthearted way. Plus, peo... JERRY GREENFIELD I went to Gettysburg College, where the famous Civil War battle was fought. I majored in English. I ... JERRY SPINELLI I enjoy life, and I think that's important. Life is so fragile and so fleeting, and it's ove... JERRY HALL I believe in financial retirement. I don't necessarily believe in physical retirement. JERRY DOYLE Businesses typically look at issues like price, quality, time of delivery. They don't often thin... JERRY GREENFIELD There's no better feeling than making your little girls laugh. JERRY O'CONNELL I have a loyalty that runs in my bloodstream, when I lock into someone or something, you can't g... JERRY LEWIS I think my fans would probably be surprised to know I'm not insane - I'm not a crazy person ... JERRY TRAINOR My guitar is a mutation between a classic Fender Stratocaster guitar, which I played for years, and ... JERRY GARCIA As we approached each other, the noise and the students around us melted away and we were utterly al... JERRY SPINELLI I mean, just because you're a musician doesn't mean all your ideas are about music. So every... JERRY GARCIA Chris Ofili's suave, stippled, visually tricked-out paintings of the nineties, with their allove... JERRY SALTZ I almost resent being Charley Moviestar. Yeah, I'm grateful. But it takes me away from my kids. JERRY LEWIS I don't plan out my visits rigorously, but I do have a list of about 125 New York galleries, alt... JERRY SALTZ In November, 1964 when I was a patient at the Mayo Clinic I though seriously about killing myself. JERRY KRAMER I have this old '57 Porsche Speedster, and the way the door closes, I'll just sit there and ... JERRY SEINFELD Artschwager's art always involves looking closely at surfaces, questions what an object is, want... JERRY SALTZ Damien Hirst is the Elvis of the English art world, its ayatollah, deliverer, and big-thinking entre... JERRY SALTZ It wouldn't be the worst thing in the world if we didn't have a salary cap. JERRY JONES Red-hot songs were born on the black streets of Baltimore, where I delivered five-gallon cans of ker... JERRY LEIBER I'm a fan of very, very expensive creams: Creme de la Mer, La Prairie Skin Caviar Luxe. I'm ... JERRY HALL