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

One reads alone, even in another's presence.

The sea where living creatures were at one time immersed is now enclosed within their bodies.

seek and learn to recognize who and what, in the midst of inferno, are not inferno, then make them endure, give them space

Melancholy is sadness that has taken on lightness.

It is not the voice that commands the story: it is the ear.

Very often the effort men put into activities that seem completely useless turns out to be extremely important in ways no one could foresee. Play has always been the mainspring of culture.