A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

Maybe this is why we read, and why in moments of darkness we return to books: to find words for what we already know.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.

I have no feelings of guilt regarding the books I have not read and perhaps will never read; I know that my books have unlimited patience. They will wait for me till the end of my days.

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

Unicorns, dragons, witches may be creatures conjured up in dreams, but on the page their needs, joys, anguishes, and redemptions should be just as true as those of Madame Bovary or Martin Chuzzlewit.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

War was always here. Before man was, war waited for him. The ultimate trade awaiting its ultimate practitioner.

Beholdthe azure sea in front of you, the turquoise sky above you, the amber mountain beneath your feet, and the golden daisy in your hands.How are you not the richest person on earth?

Right now it's only a notion, but I think I can get the money to make it into a concept, and later turn it into an idea.

As inclination changes, thus ebbs and flows the unstable tide of public judgment.

Kenny Burrell that's the sound I'm looking for.

Loneliness is like starvation: you don't realize how hungry you are until you begin to eat.

No god ever gave any man anything, nor ever answered any prayer at any time - nor ever will.

Dogs remember every favor you ever do for them and store those events in a memory bank titled Why My Human Is A God.

Forecasts may tell you a great deal about the forecaster; they tell you nothing about the future.