"I love [this book]. I read it at four different times in my life. Teenager and later."

"Convinced that he needed a new direction in life, Carey returned home to Cleveland, where he immersed himself in self-help books, including Og Mandino’s University of Success and Dr. Wayne Dyer’s Your Erroneous Zones; he would later state that "self-help books literally changed his life"

"It’s everything! This film also captures an exciting time in American classical ballet. It’s like it’s frozen in time, this magical period in the late ’70s and early ’80s when ballet dancers were rock stars. I loved it even more later in life because, once I moved to New York, I ended up living with Isabel Brown, whose life the story it’s loosely based on. Her daughter, Leslie, stars in the movie opposite Mikhail Baryshnikov."

"There’s a whole wave of Latin American fiction that I didn’t encounter until later in life. In high school one reads grand narratives like Don Quixote, and Garcia Marquez was the closest to contemporary we got. This felt like watching the movie Ghost World; there’s something very exciting and fun about the quotidian in it."

"Reading Rilke, on the other hand, was like breathing in pure poetic oxygen. He spoke of life in a different way than I’d ever understood it before. His expressions of cosmic suffering and universal knowledge related to ideas I would find later in Zen Buddhist and Sufi writings. Coming upon them for the first time was intoxicating."

"It’s fashionable to read ‘Naked Lunch,’ proclaim Burroughs as a genius, sometimes dip into ‘Junky,’ and forget the rest. The truth is that Burroughs’ best novels were the ones he wrote in the later years of his life, like ‘The Western Lands,’ and this beautiful work."

"I’ve never gone through a phase of music that I’m embarrassed about in later life, but I overplayed this song so can’t stand it anymore. I played the whole of ‘Sgt. Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club’ to death when I was in my mid-teens, so despite this being an incredible song, it’s not something I reach for now"

"Motherhood has come to me later in life. I really thought it had passed me by, but as fate would have it, I now get to read this heartwarming book to my son several times a week. I don't think either of us will ever grow tired of it."