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With regard to the youth vote we should encourage them to partake in the process, making more use of our education system to show the role Government plays in their lives

But also read against yourselves, read for questioning and impotence, for despair and erudition…

Any reading not of a vicious species must be a good substitute for the amusements too apt to fill up the leisure of the labouring classes.

The looks, the stares, the giggles . . . I wanted to show everybody that I could do better and also that I could read.

I think when you’ve lived a bit, you read more into the songs. I do, anyway. And you’re sort of living the songs rather than performing them,

It was a compromise. There was a sense that I could write my own memoirs, and Larry [Grobel] would help me down the line, or maybe not, maybe he was too close to me.

A lot of actors choose parts by the scripts, but I don’t trust reading the scripts that much.

When I was a kid, I read comics. But when I saw how funny it was, and how wonderfully absurd, I said, “You know, I gotta do this.”

If we could read the secret history of our enemies we should find in each man’s life sorrow and suffering enough to disarm all hostility.

One should read them, listen to them, think about them, contemplate them, and investigate the present reality, the present experience with them. Then, and only then, can one insightfully know the truth beyond words.