I never travel without my diary. One should always have something sensational to read in the train.

I don’t read books much.

Where ever I am I always find myself looking out the window wishing I was somewhere else.

It’s useful to go out of this world and see it from the perspective of another one.

Become slower in your journey through life. Practice yoga and meditation if you suffer from ‚hurry sickness.‘ Become more introspective by visiting quiet places such as churches, museums, mountains and lakes. Give yourself permission to read at least one novel a month for pleasure.

You can’t die with an unfinished book.

Shakespeare didn’t work at all for me.

I had not expected ‚A Brief History of Time‘ to be a best seller.

I never go anywhere. I do sketches and make phone calls, and people visit. It’s more fun to come to Paris.

In all my wild mountaineering, I have enjoyed only one avalanche ride; and the start was so sudden, and the end came so soon, I thought but little of the danger that goes with this sort of travel, though one thinks fast at such times.

A young man who wishes to remain a sound atheist cannot be too careful of his reading.

It usually helps me write by reading – somehow the reading gear in your head turns the writing gear.

Mum had done everything you need to educate a kid. She made me a kid who likes books and she told me about ‚Wind in the Willows‘ and read it and I thought this is weird, Rat, Mole, Toad and my first ever Bolshie thought – you know about ‚The Wind in the Willows.‘

I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.

The only way of catching a train I have ever discovered is to miss the train before.

I never saw a discontented tree. They grip the ground as though they liked it, and though fast rooted they travel about as far as we do.

If I’m honest I have to tell you I still read fairy-tales and I like them best of all.

With all the travel we’re doing to cold-weather cities, your mind definitely starts to wander. It gets you away from the game. Even when you arrive in a city, you’re tempted to just sit in your hotel and rest. Sometimes it’s nice to just get out and walk around, to see what’s there.

No place is better than Akron.

When I prepare, I am not messing around. I find the right places, the right people, and the right environment. Iceland is one of those places.

I was thinking about how people seem to read the Bible a whole lot more as they get older; then it dawned on me – they’re cramming for their final exam.

The problem isn’t that Johnny can’t read. The problem isn’t even that Johnny can’t think. The problem is that Johnny doesn’t know what thinking is; he confuses it with feeling.

I would drive to gigs in my tiny little Fiat. I would shoot up and down the M1 to play at various places.

If it’s all instruction, you get annoyed with it and bored, and you stop reading. If it’s all entertainment, you read it quite quickly, your heart going pitty-pat, pitty-pat. But when you finish, that’s it. You’re not going to think about it much afterward, apart from the odd nightmare. You’re not going to read that book again.

I found that part of it towards San Salvador extending from north to south five leagues, and the other side which we coasted along, ran from east to west more than ten leagues.

I got interested in reading very early, because a story was read to me, by Hans Christian Andersen, which was ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ and I don’t know if you remember ‚The Little Mermaid,‘ but it’s dreadfully sad. The little mermaid falls in love with this prince, but she cannot marry him because she is a mermaid.

To buy books would be a good thing if we also could buy the time to read them.

I’ve never known any trouble than an hour’s reading didn’t assuage.

I’m a wandering gypsy.

The language of all the interpretations, the translations, of the Judaic Bible and the Christian Bible, is musical, just wonderful. I read the Bible to myself; I’ll take any translation, any edition, and read it aloud, just to hear the language, hear the rhythm, and remind myself how beautiful English is.

I think the reason I don’t read is because, when I’m reading, I feel like I’m missing out on something else. You know, What are my friends doing? Where’s my girlfriend?

Africa is probably one of the most beautiful places I have ever been.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

As a country, we can’t teach kids how to read and write when we got 18 years to do it. And that’s – that’s a disgrace.

I have trouble reading modern Hebrew. In the 1950s, I could read anything. I don’t know how much experience you’ve had with contemporary Hebrew. It’s quite difficult.

One of the things that I have admired about India is the spiritualism of the people.

I’m always reading the next book. Taking notes. Highlighting, researching, studying. It doesn’t stop.

I’m really good at sleeping on planes. I mean, I smell jet fuel and I’m out; I’m asleep for takeoff.

Reading and writing, like everything else, improve with practice. And, of course, if there are no young readers and writers, there will shortly be no older ones. Literacy will be dead, and democracy – which many believe goes hand in hand with it – will be dead as well.

Reading and writing are connected. I learned to read very early so I could read the comics, which I then started to draw.

Censorship ends in logical completeness when nobody is allowed to read any books except the books that nobody reads.

Of all the mountain ranges I have climbed, I like the Sierra Nevada the best.

Literature is my Utopia. Here I am not disenfranchised. No barrier of the senses shuts me out from the sweet, gracious discourses of my book friends. They talk to me without embarrassment or awkwardness.

Employ your time in improving yourself by other men’s writings, so that you shall gain easily what others have labored hard for.

I shall make that trip. I shall go to Korea.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

My mother insisted that her children read.

Modern travelling is not travelling at all; it is merely being sent to a place, and very little different from becoming a parcel.

I hope to play until I’m, like, 38 or something, and that’s a lot of years in the game and a lot of travel and a lot of sacrifice on my family’s part.

A home without books is a body without soul.

The whole object of travel is not to set foot on foreign land; it is at last to set foot on one’s own country as a foreign land.

In Hollywood the woods are full of people that learned to write but evidently can’t read. If they could read their stuff, they’d stop writing.

I could do one show after another in China for the rest of my life and still die ignorant. There’s a lot of places left to go.

I have written a book. This will come as quite a shock to some. They didn’t think I could read, much less write.

There is no author whose books I look forward to more than Vaclav Smil.

When I went back to England after a year away, the country seemed stuck, dozing in a fairy tale, stifled by the weight of tradition.

You don’t have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them.

Just got back from a pleasure trip: I took my mother-in-law to the airport.

A book must be the ax for the frozen sea within us.

When I’m home, I spend Sunday with my husband. If we’re not cooking, we travel around in our camper, stop at fast-food restaurants, and picnic. We love that stuff that will harden your arteries in a hurry.

I was always very curious as a young man about why older writers who I met seemed so indifferent to what was going on, whereas I, in my 20s, was reading everything. Everything seemed important. But they were only interested in the writers they admired when they were young, and I didn’t understand it then, but now, now I understand it.