A dock, a book, a drink and a view. Perfection
I don't really read to be challenged on my perceptions of the world or to get a commentary on society or political structures. Realistically, I either want to be entertained well or I want to learn something. So the books I read are more genre specific and fun with an occassional literary fiction selection.
On Building Strong Stomachs
I teach only the best. What happens with great literature is that the shadows on the pages move around. So you read it when you’re 46, and you read it when you’re—I’m 63 now, and it’s moved. Great literature organically moves, and it never stays still. You don’t get tired of it, you just notice different things about it. What is intolerable is second- and third-rate literature, because it gives up all its secrets the first time. And the second time you read it, it’s all there; there’s nothing new. It’s like an Andy Warhol painting—you look at an Andy Warhol painting once, you can look at it a hundred times and there’s nothing new in it.