The curious are always in some danger. If you are curious you might never come home.

It is the nature of walls that they should fall.

Books, for me, are a home. Books don’t make a home – they are one, in the sense that just as you do with a door, you open a book, and you go inside. Inside there is a different kind of time and a different kind of space.

I keep telling this story - different people, different places, different times - but always you, always me, always this story, because a story is a tight rope between two worlds.

I choose this story above all others because it's a story I'm struggling to end.

Trust me, I'm telling you stories. ... I can change the story. I am the story.

In a world where meaning is often absent or imposed, reading offers a dialogue with ourselves, with society, with history, and with the dead.