If a book is really good, it deserves to be read again, and if it's great, it should be read at least three times.

There is something about seeing real people on a stage that makes a bad play more intimately, more personally offensive than any other art form.

Rome was a poem pressed into service as a city.

For years they have been using the role of 'sex object' as a cover while they spied out the land.

Either a writer doesn't want to talk about his work, or he talks about it more than you want.

I feel about lending a book the way most fathers feel about their daughters living with a man out of wedlock.

In an age like ours, which is not given to letter-writing, we forget what an important part it used to play in people's lives.