Each country thinks its school is in a specific crisis, without ever linking the school's crisis to that of the society around it.

Time spent reading, like time spent loving, increases our lifetime.

All it takes is one teacher - just one - to save us from ourselves and make us forget all the others.

L’architecture est art de suggestion.

A well-chosen book saves you from everything, including yourself.

The paradoxical virtue of reading lies in distancing ourselves from the world so that we may make sense of it.

I master my doubts now. I have fun with them, they're my travelling companions.

You can't make someone read. Just like you can't make them fall in love, or dream.

By making time to read, like making time to love, we expand our time for living.

The teacher is commodified, the school is a shop, the subjects are consumer goods. To read, to think, to reflect, isn't a question of want, it's a question of need.

I have never experienced a sorrow that was not relieved by an hour of reading.

Just as food is fuel for the body, books are fuel for the mind.

As much as I cared about him, I wasn’t a slave to fate. I could choose to ignore my feelings, strong as they were. It would be painful, but no more so than letting myself pine for my friend.

Life is a cat asleep on the window sill suddenly waking as it falls from the third floor.

The present is where we get lost - if we forget our past and have no vision of the future

No one has a right to occupy the privileged position all the time, so it should be contested. It should always be messy in there.

We have - through a hundred years of photography and two decades of film - been enormously enriched... We may say we see the world with entirely different eyes.

When you are losing it can seem like there is a black cloud following you around, but like they say there is a silver lining in every cloud.

Many scammers are only using personal checks for payment because they can take the money and run.

What I wear is pants. What I do is live. How I pray is breathe.

I tried all my life to be a normal person. Stars are in the sky. I like cooking and gardening.