During the day, the library is a realm of order.

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

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

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

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

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.

If we longer rely on God, it means we have rejected the rule of a righteous Ruler.

Our attitude towards ourselves should be to be insatiable in learning and towards others to be tireless in teaching.

The year's in the wane There is nothing adoring The night has no eve And the day has no morning Cold winter gives warning!

I've been getting into drinking smoothies in the morning - I like those a lot.

The substance of painting is light.

I have a winning temperament. I know how to win.

I am mainly concerned with unqualified knowledge, by contrast with the varieties of expert knowledge: scientific knowledge of various sorts, legal knowledge, medically expert knowledge, and so on.

I had no desire to be in the movies. All my training had been in the theater, thank God.

It is a big problem and so I don't know for sure if I say yes or no to Ferrari.

I was trying to foster a great working relationship between those two departments [design and the writing teams], because classically in animation the two don't get along.