Carly Simon

[Ben Taylor] He is an interesting combination of the two of us. His voice box is more like mine but the way his tongue sits in his mouth, and the way he pronounces words, is just like James Taylor.

I always live in some kind of anticipation of something good happening.

You can repeat the mistakes of your parents’ marriage or you can go out of your way not to repeat them.

I think when you get married, it’s not a totally free ride – it’s not without its unglamorous periods and its fights and its angry noons and silent dawns or vice-versa.

Music gave me the energy to revise, revive myself; renew, rebirth myself. It was a palliative, a relief.

I grew up not understanding what was true and what was not true. It gave me a sense of unreality.

Whatever our fate is or may be, we have made it and do not complain of it. – Vronksy (Anna Karenina)

We are too civil to books. For a few golden sentences we will turn over and actually read a volume of four or five hundred pages.

I love books.

A truly good book teaches me better than to read it. I must lay it down and commence living on its hint… What I began by reading I must finish by acting.

Books, not which afford us a cowering enjoyment, but in which each thought is of unusual daring; such as an idle man cannot read, and a timid one would not be entertained by, which even make us dangerous to existing institution – such call I good books.

Tis the good reader that makes the good book.

The multitude of books is making us ignorant.

When I look back, I am so impressed again with the life-giving power of literature. If I were a young person today, trying to gain a sense of myself in the world, I would do that again by reading, just as I did when I was young.

There are books which take rank in your life with parents and lovers and passionate experiences, so medicinal, so stringent, so revolutionary, so authoritative.

Why not blame the libraries? They’re full of violent books.

I know many books which have bored their readers, but I know of none which has done real evil.

The oldest books are still only just out to those who have not read them.

If you are going to get anywhere in life you have to read a lot of books.

I don’t care if a reader hates one of my stories, just as long as he finishes the book.

Books that you carry to the fire, and hold readily in your hand, are most useful after all.