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.

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.

The rule is that when one’s mind is controlled in a specific subject, he can control the other person’s mind in that subject.

Don't look back you're not going that way.

It's not just a question of doing what you love for a living. It's about doing what you love with love. Then your life and all be transformed.

When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

I am like a blind pig when I work.

He (Gaylord Perry) should be in the Hall of Fame with a tube of KY jelly attached to his plaque.

Was it confusing because it was artistic, or artistic because it was confusing?

Actions are divided as regards their object into four classes; they are either purposeless , unimportant , or vain , or good .

On the way to truth, walk with the crowds or walk all alone; but walk always and walk under every condition!

If a man fasten his attention on a single aspect of truth and apply himself to that alone for a long time, the truth becomes distorted and not itself but falsehood.