It is not proper to look over someone's shoulder to see what book they are reading or what they are typing. It's rude.

How did I know this? I could see his lips moving. At one point, he screwed up his courage and asked me what I did for a living. I closed my notes and took out a novel.

The most crucial time for building bone is before the age of 25, after which we start losing more bone than we make, so prevention at a young age is a key to slowing this trend.

My earliest experience was reading Edward Albee's 'Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?' at 8, you know, with a bunch of kids on my steps - on the stoops - and knowing that I wanted to direct them saying the lines. I don't really know how to articulate that 'cause there wasn't someone to show me.

Read whatever book you lay your hands on if you can, for every writer has a story to tell

Anyone who reads, even one from the remote Southwest at the far end of an attenuated tradition, is to some extent a citizen of the world, and I had been a hungry reader all my life.