Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

You don't choose your friends, they choose you, and you either reject them or you accept them without reservations.

Becoming a book collector is like joining a religion: it’s for life.

...the problem with words is that once spoken, they cannot find their way back to the speaker alone.

Actually loneliness has a kind of fascination; it's a state of egotistical, inner grace that you can achieve only by standing guard on old, forgotten roads that no one travels anymore.

Because God and the devil could be one and the same thing, and everybody understood it in his own way.

She loves you, loathes you, treats you well, then ill. Like a leech or a surgeon's knife, she's double-edged: sometimes she'll cure, but sometimes she will kill.