Besides, rereading, not reading, is what counts.

Literature is not exhaustible, for the sufficient and simple reason that a single book is not.

To fall in love is to create a religion that has a fallible god.

A book is more than a verbal structure or series of verbal structures; it is the dialogue it establishes with its reader and the intonation it imposes upon his voice and the changing and durable images it leaves in his memory. A book is not an isolated being: it is a relationship, an axis of innumerable relationships.

His life, measured in space and time, will take up a mere few lines, which my ignorance will abbreviate further.

Mir Bahadur Ali is, as we have seen, incapable of evading the most vulgar of art's temptations: that of being a genius.

Im merely a dreamer, and then a writer, and my happiest moments are when I'm a reader.