It's clear to me that there is no good reason for many philosophy books to sound as complicated as they do.- Alain de Botton
If you want to read about love and marriage, you've got to buy two separate books.
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To paint comic books as childish and illiterate is lazy. A lot of comic books are very literate - unlike most films.
Who knows for what we live, and struggle, and die? Wise men write many books, in words too hard to understand. But this, the purpose of our lives, the end of all our struggle, is beyond all human wisdom.
After all manner of professors have done their best for us, the place we are to get knowledge is in books. The true university of these days is a collection of books.
Isn't it strange that I who have written only unpopular books should be such a popular fellow?
The proper study of mankind is books.
My mother used to take my brother and me to get any books we wanted, but they were second hand books published in the '30s and '40s. I liked scary books.
We do not perceive a contradiction between writing books, making films or producing a television program. These days you can't choose how you want to express yourself anymore.
Books have become products, like cereal or perfume or deodorant.
Books would not stay banned. They would not burn. Ideas would not go to jail.
When I talked to my medical friends about the strange silence on this subject in American medical magazines and textbooks, I gained the impression that here was a subject tainted with Socialism or with feminine sentimentality for the poor.
All the characters in my books are imagined, but all have a bit of who I am in them - much like the characters in your dreams are all formed by who you are.
Even in times when it's difficult to figure out, how do you go forward, art - and books - always help.
I have been a screenwriter for twenty-five years. Every one of my books have been optioned for movies and I have written a few of those screenplays.
