There will always be non-readers, bad readers, lazy readers - there always were.

I'm a complete democrat in terms of who buys my books.

You put together two things that have not been put together before. And the world is changed.

We thought we were being mature when we were only being safe. We imagined we were being responsible but were only being cowardly. What we called realism turned out to be a way of avoiding things rather than facing them.

The spring of 1930 marks the end of a period of grave concern...American business is steadily coming back to a normal level of prosperity.

Most of us remember adolescence as a kind of double negative: no longer allowed to be children, we are not yet capable of being adults.

we must be precise with love, its language and its gestures. If it is to save us, we must look at it as clearly as we should learn to look at death