The readers who commited suicide after reading 'Werther' were not ideal but merely sentimental readers.

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.

Self Hate: The deadliest 'dis-ease' experienced by wounded souls.

My double drags his coffin, humble slave, I, at least, am real, though changed to flesh.Far-off, I build me a church no hand can shape("Winter Sonnets: III")

The poorer people and criminals of Mexico who are not very religious but not quite atheists, either, worship Saint Death.

I've always said I have nothing against a woman doing anything a man can do as long as she gets home in time to cook dinner.

Marilyn Monroe was a very sweet girl, she was a very innocent girl.

We should no more tolerate false doctrine that we would tolerate sin.

I think people get fixated on the example of an idea.

So it was a whole experience revolving around "The Evolution of Dance," but wasn't just a company that put an ad on the video.

I had three influential teachers. The first was Uta Hagen. The second two, Bobby Lewis and my late husband, Charles Kakatsakis, were both from the Actors Studio.

Consuming is an endless treadmill.