Even if you slept with every man on Earth, my love will still survive.
You want to read a book? That requires introspection. It requires time away from people and time away from the constant need to communicate and to connect.
Reading is entering into the consciousness of another human being.
If you stop thinking, if you stop wondering, you die.
You are not what you want. You are what wants you back.
If my mother hadn't tried to sell me chicken Kiev cutlets for $1. 40 after I graduated from college, maybe I would've been the lawyer she wanted me to be.
Good fiction makes me turn off all the other parts of my brain, so that I become quiet and submissive, entirely at the mercy of the work at hand.
My expectations-which I extended whenever I came close to accomplishing my goals-made it impossible ever to feel satisfied with my success.
I never made any money off of my records. It gave me the name across the country so that I could do some of the things in my personal appearances.
Sporting chivalrous contest helps knit the bonds of peace between nations. Therefore may the Olympic flame never expire.
Yeah, I think A Confederacy of Dunces is probably the perfect New Orleans book.