“Reading has given me more satisfaction than really anything else.”

Red is the ultimate cure for sadness.

Something about glamour interested me. All my schoolbooks had drawings of women on terraces with a cocktail and a cigarette.

I have a firm belief in such things as, you know, the water, the Earth, the trees and sky. And I’m wondering, it is increasingly difficult to find those elements in nature, because it’s nature I believe in rather than some spiritual thing.

When in doubt, wear red.

Fashion can be bought by anybody; style takes discernment, it has to do with individuality.

In regard to propaganda the early advocates of universal literacy and a free press envisaged only two possibilities: the propaganda might be true, or the propaganda might be false. They did not foresee what in fact has happened, above all in our Western capitalist democracies.

What I teach is literary criticism and comparative literature and so on and that’s my function, but from time to time it’s possible for me actually to help a writer. I read something and something strikes me then, I feel I can talk to that writer about it.

Emerson was such an important figure in our literary history, and in the moral and religious development of our people, that attention cannot be directed to him too often.

Anybody could say anything they want about me, and it literally never penetrates my skin.

No humorist is under any obligation to provide answers and probably if you were to delve into the literary history of humour it’s probably all about not providing answers because the humorist essentially says: this is the way things are.

To get the medium’s magic to work for one’s aims rather than against them is to attain literacy.

Computer literacy is a contact with the activity of computing deep enough to make the computational equivalent of reading and writing fluent and enjoyable.

The number one problem in today’s generation and economy is the lack of financial literacy.