I don’t generally read reviews.

I have zero desire, just so you know, to be in the limelight. I don’t think it’s good for the country to have a former president criticize his successor. You’re not going to see me giving my opinions in the public arena, until I start selling my book. I’m going to emerge then submerge.

Even as a kid, I wore J.C. Penney plain-pocket jeans because they were plain pockets. I didn’t want anybody’s name on my backside. I personally don’t like to wear clothing that is named for somebody or has someone’s likeness all over it.

I hate all sports as rabidly as a person who likes sports hates common sense.

I have never entered into any controversy in defense of my philosophical opinions; I leave them to take their chance in the world. If they are right, truth and experience will support them; if wrong, they ought to be refuted and rejected. Disputes are apt to sour one’s temper and disturb one’s quiet.

I don’t just listen to rap.

Whether I’m at the office, at home, or on the road, I always have a stack of books I’m looking forward to reading.

If you must tell me your opinions, tell me what you believe in. I have plenty of doubts of my own.

The one thing that ‚Via Dolorosa‘ has is no opinions. To me, curiosity is 50 times as valuable as opinion.

When I was 8 years old, it mattered what my favorite singer said and wore and expressed opinions about.

I will not eat oysters. I want my food dead. Not sick. Not wounded. Dead.

Few people are capable of expressing with equanimity opinions which differ from the prejudices of their social environment. Most people are even incapable of forming such opinions.

The second time around, I’ll understand that, as a husband, my wife doesn’t care about my opinions. I just need to tell her the things that will continue to help me stack the brownie points.

I give opinions, not advice.

No, I can’t do rap music!

I’m an early riser. I get up between five and six, have coffee, and read for a couple of hours before everyone else gets up.

When I left Dortmund, I said it’s not important what people think when you come in but what they think when you leave.

The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.

‚Recreative‘ is a word that I invented because in urban culture, with colloquialism, we invent so many slangs. I don’t like the way that ‚recreational‘ sounds – I don’t like to say I do a lot of ‚recreational‘ reading. I like to say that I read ‚recreatively.‘ I do a lot of ‚recreative‘ reading.

If you want to be a writer, you must do two things above all others: read a lot and write a lot. There’s no way around these two things that I’m aware of, no shortcut.

I have often wondered how it is that every man loves himself more than all the rest of men, but yet sets less value on his own opinions of himself than on the opinions of others.

I cannot pretend to be impartial about the colours. I rejoice with the brilliant ones, and am genuinely sorry for the poor browns.

Some people wanted champagne and caviar when they should have had beer and hot dogs.

I thought ‚Heller‘ was a very bad decision.

I suspect that even most conservatives would prefer to live in the kind of world conjured up in the liberals‘ imagination rather than in the kind of world we are in fact stuck with.

Any man who reads too much and uses his own brain too little falls into lazy habits of thinking.

The greatest deception men suffer is from their own opinions.

The myth that everyone once read great literature is just a myth.

I’m a bookworm. I know with my physical appearance that I don’t look like the typical reader. I’m in Barnes & Noble all the time, and you can look at people that look like they are supposed to be in there. I am in there, pants sagging, hat backwards.

A lot of people are bored of all the political correctness.

Take care to get what you like or you will be forced to like what you get.

There’s nothing – I’ve bought everything I want. I don’t like yachts or anything; you know, I’m not a yacht person, and I’ve got pretty much the nicest plane I’d want to have.

There is a great deal of difference between an eager man who wants to read a book and the tired man who wants a book to read.

There’s no difference between movies and television. None at all. Except in a lot of cases, television’s much better than movies.

Here’s something that’s contrary to popular belief: I actually don’t like thinking. I think people think I like to think a lot. And I don’t. I do not like to think at all.

Persuasion is achieved by the speaker’s personal character when the speech is so spoken as to make us think him credible. We believe good men more fully and more readily than others: this is true generally whatever the question is, and absolutely true where exact certainty is impossible and opinions are divided.

People like to talk about war.

Arguments are extremely vulgar, for everyone in good society holds exactly the same opinion.

Where an excess of power prevails, property of no sort is duly respected. No man is safe in his opinions, his person, his faculties, or his possessions.

There are as many opinions as there are experts.

I don’t generally read a lot of fiction.

Reviews condition people. At the end of the day, a lot of human minds are malleable. They can be easily shaped with strong words.

I like the language in Proust but not the context.

Whatever came to mind, whatever came to hand, I would read.

Writing means sharing. It’s part of the human condition to want to share things – thoughts, ideas, opinions.

I know that some books and some writers, you can pretty much draw a square around it and say, ‚Nobody under 40,‘ or ‚Nobody under 25.‘ With my books, it always has been, and continues to be, spread right across the board, and I think the operative term is ‚reader.‘

I am not a fan of books.

Debates, I hate.

There are people who don’t like capitalism, and people who don’t like PCs. But there’s no-one who likes the PC who doesn’t like Microsoft.

Really, I don’t like roller coasters.

I read a lot when I’m travelling and always have a couple of books on the go.

The artist part of me always wants to be appreciated. I read every review. But I never wanted to seek validation by awards or anything controlled by politics.

By giving us the opinions of the uneducated, journalism keeps us in touch with the ignorance of the community.

All styles are good except the tiresome kind.

Any book that helps a child to form a habit of reading, to make reading one of his deep and continuing needs, is good for him.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

Find what’s hot, find what’s just opened and then look for the worst review of the week. There is so much to learn from watching a restaurant getting absolutely panned and having a bad experience. Go and see it for yourself.

I personally don’t like to go see romantic comedies. But people do want to see them, and they seem to want to see me in them.

The older one grows, the more one likes indecency.

I’m not a chick-flick enthusiast.

I’m not big on flak jackets and tie-dyed shirts. You know, that’s not me.