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

Some books leave us free and some books make us free.

I am confident I will set foot again in Tibet in my lifetime.

My advice is this. For Christ’s sake, don’t write a book that is suitable for a kid of 12 years old, because the kids who read who are 12 years old are reading books for adults. I read all of the James Bond books when I was about 11, which was approximately the right time to read James Bond books.

In the dime stores and bus stations, people talk of situations, read books, repeat quotations, draw conclusions on the wall.

Any East Coast road trip we have is very exciting, just being on the road, taking it all in.

There are worse crimes than burning books. One of them is not reading them.

I’ve been here before and will come again, but I’m not going this trip through.

I’m always trying. Between every book, I think, ‚Well now, it’s time to get down to the serious stuff.‘

I try to read as much as I can. I try to read an informative article every day. I try to stay read up on our world issues.

The decline of literature indicates the decline of a nation.

All I really had was a suitcase and my drums. So I took them up to Seattle and hoped it would work.

The only superstition I have is that I must start a new book on the same day that I finish the last one, even if it’s just a few notes in a file. I dread not having work in progress.

Perhaps if you are in support functions waiting on the warfighters to spell out the specifics of what you are to do, you can avoid the consequences of not reading. Those who must adapt to overcoming an independent enemy’s will are not allowed that luxury.

Books are the legacies that a great genius leaves to mankind, which are delivered down from generation to generation as presents to the posterity of those who are yet unborn.

Books are like a mirror. If an ass looks in, you can’t expect an angel to look out.

But by reading them again and again finally I was able to grasp the essential part. What emotion, enthusiasm, enlightenment and confidence they communicated to me! I wept for joy.

Following the light of the sun, we left the Old World.

The Indians on board said that thence to Cuba was a voyage in their canoes of a day and a half; these being small dug-outs without a sail. Such are their canoes. I departed thence for Cuba, for by the signs the Indians made of its greatness, and of its gold and pearls, I thought that it must be Cipango.

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.

The best books… are those that tell you what you know already.

You’ve got to invest in the world, you’ve got to read, you’ve got to go to art galleries, you’ve got to find out the names of plants. You’ve got to start to love the world and know about the whole genius of the human race. We’re amazing people.

A man will turn over half a library to make one book.

If you want to go somewhere, it is best to find someone who has already been there.

Going to Southeast Asia for the first time and tasting that spectrum of flavors – that certainly changed my whole palate, the kind of foods I crave. A lot of the dishes I used to love became boring to me.

I shouldn’t be near Vegas and have money in my pocket.

Nothing induces me to read a novel except when I have to make money by writing about it. I detest them.

Some books are to be tasted, others to be swallowed, and some few to be chewed and digested.

Confidence, as a teenager? Because I knew what I loved. I loved to read; I loved to listen to music; and I loved cats. Those three things. So, even though I was an only kid, I could be happy because I knew what I loved.

Good friends, good books and a sleepy conscience: this is the ideal life.

I took a speed-reading course and read War and Peace in twenty minutes. It involves Russia.

It’s wonderful to be here in the great state of Chicago.

I’ve written a number of books that have to do with the evolution of humans, human intelligence, human emotions.

Reading, solitude, idleness, a soft and sedentary life, intercourse with women and young people, these are perilous paths for a young man, and these lead him constantly into danger.

Until 1914 I loved to travel; I often went to Italy and once spent a few months in India. Since then I have almost entirely abandoned travelling, and I have not been outside of Switzerland for over ten years.

I read a lot. I enjoy reading a lot.

A book worth reading is worth buying.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must soon lay it down, and commence living on its hint. What I began by reading, I must finish by acting.

You cannot open a book without learning something.

An author who speaks about their own books is almost as bad as a mother who speaks about her own children.

I want to work; then, as my kids get older, I want to have adventures. I want to visit all their countries: learn and live inside all their cultures.

My books are like water; those of the great geniuses are wine. (Fortunately) everybody drinks water.

All that I know about my life, it seems, I have learned in books.

Sadly, I do my homework. I’ve a soft spot for the boring minutiae. I read the Charter of the United Nations before meeting with Kofi Annan. I read the Meltzer report, and then I’ll read C. Fred Bergsten’s defense of institutions like the World Bank and the I.M.F. It’s embarrassing to admit.

I never write about the road. I never write about hotels or anything like that.

It was wonderful to find America, but it would have been more wonderful to miss it.

I would wear the blue overalls of the fieldworker and often wore round, rimless glasses known as Mazzawati teaglasses. I had a car, and I wore a chauffeur’s cap with my overalls. The pose of chauffeur was convenient because I could travel under the pretext of driving my master’s car.

I came to China to follow my star and to steep myself in the raw regions of the universe.

The most important thing is to read as much as you can, like I did. It will give you an understanding of what makes good writing and it will enlarge your vocabulary.

If I can give you one strong piece of advice, when you go away for that romantic weekend, whatever you do, do not accept or take the upgrade to the honeymoon suite.

In books lies the soul of the whole past time.

I’m tall, fat, rather bald, red-faced, double-chinned, black-haired, have a deep voice, and wear glasses for reading.

A journey is a person in itself; no two are alike. And all plans, safeguards, policing, and coercion are fruitless. We find that after years of struggle that we do not take a trip; a trip takes us.

If I like a thing, it just sticks after once reading it or hearing it.

There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts.

I’m terrible at reading scripts. I love to read, and I hate reading scripts.

I’ll stay in Memphis.

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.

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.

Work aside, we come to New York for the possibility of interaction and inspiration.

I don’t mind saying, you know, that I don’t take a salary from the church, and God has blessed me with more money than I could imagine from my books.