Every text assumes a reader.

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.

Of course not. After all, I may be wrong.

Rhythm must have meaning.

I work extremely hard doing what I love, mainly to ensure that I don't have to work extremely hard doing what I hate.

My dream was to eventually make movies. To be part of the fairy tales, stories and novels I loved reading so much growing up.

D.N.A. sequences change by mutations, and the idea behind the molecular clock is that those changes occur at, more or less, a constant rate, over time.

I would never say I had a bad childhood at all.

The combined wisdom and genius of all mankind cannot possibly conceive of an argument against liberty of thought.

To someone seeking power, the poorest man is the most useful.

One precedent in favor of power is stronger than a hundred against it.

There is no chance of a revolution in Georgia.