I know that something dies when i give up my books, and that my memory keeps going back to them with mournful nostalgia.

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.

‎"We shouldn't wait to be happy until we reach some future point, only to discover that happiness was already available--all the time!

I tried acupuncture, the patch, and hypnosis, but found that I needed to do it alone - when the time was right for me.

I think I have a more wider scope for music, I have more taste for music.

Desires repeatedly mastered for the sake of present duty make us richer. Lack of desire is poverty.

I live in an apocalyptic dream. My steps fit into it so precisely that I fear most of all I will grow bored reliving the thing so exactly.

The first assistant director is just so important that the choice of that person is critical to the movie.

I'm not a loud, extravagant person; I'm never going to be that and, to be honest, I don't want to be like that.

We want to change the identity of Delhi from Generator Capital to Power Generation Capital.

Words are also actions, and actions are a kind of words.

A community is a group of people who have come together, and they work and they live to try and improve the standard of living and quality of life - and I don't mean money.