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

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.

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.

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

Assumptions are the termites of relationships.

...I could never explain how the image and the reality merge, and how they somehow extend and beautify each other.

I had to stop myself from laughing. Who needs help taking a pill?

Moderation is the center wherein all philosophies, both human and divine, meet.

I can't count how many of my friends are in the cemetery at Normandy, the heroes are still there, the real heroes.

I'm not saying I'm perfect, or fixed, but I am learning to love and accept myself. My outlook is more positive and I am happy.

Worrying about inflation now is like worrying about the measles when you might get the plague.

It is a kingly act to assist the fallen.

Christ on a cracker. You raped Achilles!

The world does not hate its own. It does hate our Lord. It hates His followers. Where do you belong in this lineup?