Reading Quotes

There was a certain moment. I was about 61 – two, three or four, and I got a script. And I sent it back to the producer saying – “I don’t wanna do it. The part’s too small.” And he sent it back to me, he said, “You shouldn’t read the lover. You should read the father.

I haven’t read any of the autobiographies about me.

As long as I’m reading, I’m at home.

What a pure and intimate thing – to be reading the words of another.

I’ve never read one book about my father.

To read without reflecting is like eating without digesting.

I generally wake up, exercise and read through a huge amount of newspapers. I get to the office somewhere between 7:30 and 8:00 – my brothers and I are always the first ones in.

We of this age have discovered a shorter, and more prudent method to become scholars and wits, without the fatigue of reading or of thinking.

I confess, I do have to remind myself almost daily that there are people on this earth capable of reading, writing, eating and dressing themselves who believe their lives are ruled from billions of miles away, by the stars – and, of course, the planets.

There is no form of prose more difficult to understand and more tedious to read than the average scientific paper.