On why he did not read a book before interviewing its author.
The Radio 'King': From Midnight to Dawn https://news.google.com/newspapers?nid=1350&dat=19810104&id=7DBPAAAAIBAJ&pg=3792,4986335, Toledo Blade, Jan. 4, 1981.
Source: god is Not Great: How Religion Poisons Everything
Breakfast of Champions (1973)
“The better you feel about yourself, the less you feel the need to show off.”
“I personally can't think of anything less sacrosanct than a bad book or even a mediocre book.”
Source: 84, Charing Cross Road
1860s
Context: In this sad world of ours, sorrow comes to all; and, to the young, it comes with bitterest agony, because it takes them unawares. The older have learned to ever expect it. I am anxious to afford some alleviation of your present distress. Perfect relief is not possible, except with time. You can not now realize that you will ever feel better. Is not this so? And yet it is a mistake. You are sure to be happy again. To know this, which is certainly true, will make you some less miserable now. I have had experience enough to know what I say; and you need only to believe it, to feel better at once.
Letter to Fanny McCullough (23 December 1862); Collected Works of Abraham Lincoln, edited by Roy P. Basler
Source: If on a Winter's Night a Traveler
