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I play basketball on Sundays and I'm a very spiritual guy; I read a lot of Eastern philosophy and I meditate.

When you read the psychedelic literature, there is a distinction between the so-called natural psychedelics and synthetic psychedelics that are artificially produced.

If you think you have it tough, read history books.

I'm not an angry person. When I write, the lawyer in me tries to make it as easy to read as possible.

Outside of a dog, a book is a man's best friend. Inside of a dog it's too dark to read.

Though by whim, envy, or resentment led, they damn those authors whom they never read.

The good of a book lies in its being read. A book is made up of signs that speak of other signs, which in their turn speak of things. Without an eye to read them, a book contains signs that produce no concepts; therefore it is dumb.

Don't patronize the chain bookstores. Every time I see some author scheduled to read and sign his books at a chain bookstore, I feel like telling him he's stabbing the independent bookstores in the back.

Read nature; nature is a friend to truth.

No two persons ever read the same book.

I like to read about different religions - Judaism, Islam, Christianity, Hinduism and Buddhism.

Within my own life, I read all the beloved novels by lamps of vegetable oil; I saw the Standard Oil invading my own village, I saw gas lamps in the Chinese shops in Shanghai; and I saw their elimination by electric lights.

A truly great book should be read in youth, again in maturity and once more in old age, as a fine building should be seen by morning light, at noon and by moonlight.

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 have piles of poetry books in the bathroom, on the stairs, everywhere. The only way to write poetry is to read it.

As I said before, there are often disagreements as to what a particular set of facts mean. That is not at all unusual, and one shouldn't read into it more than is there.

In a funny way, poems are suited to modern life. They're short, they're intense. Nobody has time to read a 700-page book. People read magazines, and a poem takes less time than an article.

The great writers of aphorisms read as if they had all known each other well.

I read and write classical piano and percussion, also guitar.

I wish I could be like Shaw who once read a bad review of one of his plays, called the critic and said: 'I have your review in front of me and soon it will be behind me.'

Men of power have no time to read; yet the men who do not read are unfit for power.

I want you to know that, despite what you might read at times in the newspapers or see on the television news, we have actually been getting a lot of things done the last several months, the U.S.-Canada relationship.

If you read somebody's diary, you get what you deserve.

We have all read tragic stories in our local papers about gun accidents as a result of misuse. As lawmakers we can better promote safety and responsibility by encouraging gun owners to purchase gun safes to store firearms and keep them from falling into the wrong hands.

Russian is such a tough and complex language that I am happy enough to understand everything and read most things pretty well, but, without constant practice, my speech is not what I wish it was, and I would sooner write in crayon than write a letter in Russian.

Reading made Don Quixote a gentleman, but believing what he read made him mad.

I would read the atlas for pleasure. I knew it was weird. It was weird.

I want to work with great directors and try not to put too much pressure on myself and just read things for the story and recognize when I'm drawn to something for the right reasons and try to maintain some sanity.

I'd take the syncopation and play swing, and then read the syncopation lines with my left hand.

When I read Thirteen Days I was moved by it. It was just a great time for the world, in terms of looking back in history and seeing how we got ourselves into trouble and how we got ourselves out of trouble.