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"I took up a sort of a hobby of just hanging around the local library. I'd pick out an author and I would read all their books."
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"I think plays, like books, are endemic. They grow out of the soil of the writer and the place he's writing about. I think, you just can't move them about, you know."
"I love reading I know it's very important and I respect anyone that is patient enough to do it."
"I only keep books that I like very much. Otherwise I'd throw them out."
"There are writers in Germany who drink the Absolute like water; and there are books in which even the dogs make references to the Infinite."
"I was drawn to boxing because I got beat up as a kid. I was the kid with the piano books in a New York neighbourhood."
"When I die there may be a paragraph or two in the newspapers. My name will linger in the British Museum Reading Room catalogue for a space at the head of a long list of books for which no one will ever ask."
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"The first time with artistic endeavors is, if it's working, it was your idea, and if it's not, it's somebody else's idea."
"My theory is if you have a religion, it's a good one. Because some people don't have any at all."
"I have my own religion. I'm sort of one-quarter Baptist, one-quarter Catholic, one-quarter Jewish."
"It used to be that you'd have a song recorded by a major country artist and if it was a hit, you could buy a car. Now you can buy a dealership."
"The first guy who came up with the concept of religion was sitting out under a tree. I'm sure of that."
"The way you look for songs, you find yourself looking for little signals and clues about life and how things are."
"I never fixed a story. I didn't make judgments, I let the listener make judgments. When I got to the end of the story, if it had a moral, I let the listener find it."
"Religion is a strange, wonderful thing. More crimes have been committed in the name of righteousness than any other notion."
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