Reading is a pleasure of the mind, which means that it is a little like a sport: your eagerness and knowledge and quickness count for something. The fun of reading is not that something is told to you, but that you stretch your mind. Your own imagination works along with the authors, or even goes beyond his, yields the same or different conclusions, and your ideas develop as you understand his.

Television, I love it, everything that happened before television lumped together, never caused folks to turn on a street to stare at me, or waitresses to ask for autographs.

Fame - anyone who says he doesn't like it is crazy

One of the troubles of the day, observes Mr. C.N. Peac, is that once we came upon the little red schoolhouse, whereas now we come upon the little-read school boy.

One of the greatest threats facing book publishing, and the entire country for that matter, is censorship.

For me, a hearty "belly laugh" is one of the beautiful sounds in the world.

Middle age is when your old classmates are so grey and wrinkled and bald they don't recognize you.