I don't even read most reviews, unless there is a potential lawsuit on view.

As a schoolboy, I read most of Carl Sandburg's six-volume biography of Abraham Lincoln.

Ayn Rand is a rhetorician who writes novels I have never been able to read.

The four most beautiful words in our common language: I told you so.

Write something, even if it's just a suicide note.

The first grown-up book that I read on my own was a nineteenth-century edition of 'Tales from Livy' that I'd found in my grandfather's library.