The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way. Whatever may happen to me,… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“And winning; that can be heavy on your back, too, like a monkey. You drop that load too when you find yourself an excuse."… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“Reading is too intimate,' Spofforth said. 'It will put you too close to the feelings and ideas of others. It will disturb and confuse… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
Reading is the subtle and thorough sharing of the ideas and feelings by underhanded means. It is a gross invasion of Privacy and a… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It changed the life of mankind more radically than the printing press. It created suburbs and a hundred other dependencies—sexual and economic and narcotic—upon… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“He was sick, sick from the long dangerous trip he had taken, sick from all the medicine —the pills, the inoculations, the inhaled gases… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“There had been a few times over the past year when she felt like this, with her mind not only dizzied but nearly terrified… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
The strange thing about television is that it - doesn't *tell* you everything. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“I feel free and strong. If I were not a reader of books I could not feel this way.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
New York is nearly a grave. The Empire State Building is its gravestone. — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“It all began, I suppose, with learning to build fires—to warm the cave and keep the predators out. And it ended with time-release Valium.” — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
“He began to see a kind of beauty in the strangeness of the field, too. It was quite different from what he had been… — Walter Tevis Copy Share Image
