“When I can't sleep, I read a book by Steve Allen.”
“Son of a bitch! You're Steve Allen!”
“I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?”
“When I can’t write I read. When I can’t read I sleep. And when I can’t sleep I write.”
“There is a logic [to my reading], but I can't define it. I like reading impulsively. I collect books, I have a lot of them, but most of them I have not read yet. I'll read them when they call me from the shelf.”
“I reckon if I can't spend the day sleeping, the next best thing is to spend it reading and drinking.”