One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

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.

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.

The past is devoid of meaning like the present, and a refuge for cowards.

I’ve learned through the years that it’s not where you live, it’s the people who surround you that make you feel at home.

Happiness is the cheapest thing in the world when we buy it for someone else.

I have loved and bitterness left me for that hour. But there are times when love itself is bitter.

You can do anything you want to do, if you know what to do.

There. Maybe if you're lucky, you'll get a scar! That's what you want, isn't it?

An ellipsis is a giant ocean of possibilities.

My guitar playing is a synthesis of traditional American acoustic style and Urban Pop and RB.

starvation is a shame and disgrace to the world and totally unnecessary in modern times.

If Dracula can't see his reflection in a mirror, how come his hair is always so neatly combed?