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.
I have a hard time imagining a life without basketball.
Acting was something I needed like air. It wasn't something I could walk away from.
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.
She read books as one would breathe air, to fill up and live.
I write because I can't imagine not writing.
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.
