If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

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.

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.

But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence.

A fish that is afraid of drowning in a river is ignorant of its gifts.

More than anything, it is that sense - that despite great differences in wealth, we rise and fall together - that we can't afford to lose.

Even just taking 20 seconds to truly appreciate your surroundings makes a world of difference.

The men and women of America's homeland security apparatus do important work to protect us, and Republicans and Democrats in Congress should not be playing politics with that.

Modern medicine, for all its advances, knows less than 10 percent of what your body knows instinctively.

The Alps are a simple folk, living on a diet of old shoes. And the Lord Alps those who alp themselves.

I painted. I wanted to be a painter. I sang.

My hand will always be imperfect because it's human… I think that's where the beauty is.

In time the bull is brought to wear the yoke. [Lat., Tempore ruricolae patiens fit taurus aratri.]

It's a little premature to be claiming that this is a done deal, but certainly Rex Tillerson is American icon and businessman that I think is a pretty incredible guy.