Every new book I read comes to be a part of that overall and unitary book that is the sum of my readings...if you need little to set the imagination going, I require even less: the promise of reading is enough.

Memories images, once they are fixed in words, are erased.

The universe is the mirror in which we can contemplate only what we have learned to know in ourselves

We could say, then, that man is an instrument the world employs to renew its own image constantly.

A classic is a book which with each rereading offers as much of a sense of discovery as the first reading.

The ideal place for me is the one in which it is most natural to live as a foreigner.

Your first book already defines you, while you are really far from being defined. And this definition is something you may then carry with you for the rest of your life, trying to confirm it or extend or correct or deny it; but you can never eliminate it.