As we read a text in our own language, the text itself becomes a barrier.

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.

It is impossible to make time but you can always make a commitment.

The best way to escape from a problem is to solve it.

To 'see both sides' of a problem is the surest way to prevent its complete solution. Because there are always more than two sides.

A flat tax is roughly the same as a sales tax.

I taught workshops at universities. I wrote for magazines. This took time and insane amounts of juggling, but it's how I earned a living.

Praise the invisible sun burning beyond the white cold sky, giving us light and the chimney's shadow.

May the flop be with you.

You can't argue with what is.... Well, you can, but if you do, you suffer.

--then on the shore Of the wide world I stand alone, and think Till love and fame to nothingness do sink.

The record company's worst fear is that you'll fall in love or get rich.