We read in bed because reading is halfway between life and dreaming, our own consciousness in someone else's mind.

Ideas are only lethal if you suppress and don't discuss them. Ignorance is not bliss, it's stupid. Banning books shows you don't trust your kids to think and you don't trust yourself to be able to talk to them.

For most of my life the only ceremonies I've been to at which women were the stars were weddings. So I like weddings.

Down time is where we become ourselves... a hiatus that passes for boredom but is really the quiet moving of the wheels inside that fuel creativity.

I think there are some stories that need to be told by a specific person as opposed to in the third person.

All reading is good reading. And all reading of Jane Austen and Charles Dickens is sublime reading.

If God had meant Harvard professors to appear in People magazine, She wouldn't have invented The New York Review of Books.