In no way can sport be considered a luxury object.
Reading is not optional.
Writing is so entwined with my being that I can't imagine a life without it.
The Arts are man's most useless ... and essential ... activity.
Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.
I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.
I would be lost without baseball. I don't think I could stand being away from it as long as I was alive.
I realise people exist who don't read. But it's like I knew there were people who didn't breathe or eat: I can't imagine a life like that.
Art is like breathing for me. If I don't do it, I start to choke.
It's absolutely essential to my life. I don't know what I would do if I didn't write.
To me, climbing is like eating or drinking. I have to do it; it's part of my life.
Playing basketball for me is like breathing.
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
Everything in my past, in my training, everything that has been most essential in my activity up to now has made me above all a man who writes, and it is too late for that to change.
What keeps me interested is that I have to do it. It's like people wake up and they have to breathe; I have to write songs; I have to make music. That's like eating or breathing to me. It's that simple.
To me, writing is not a profession. You might as well call living a profession. Or having children. Anything you can't help doing.
