My undertaking is not difficult, essentially. I should only have to be immortal to carry it out.

If I were asked to name the chief event in my life, I should say my father's library.

Let neither tear nor reproach besmirch this declaration of the mastery of God who, with magnificent irony, granted me both the gift of books and the night.

Reality favors symmetry.

I think of reading a book as no less an experience than travelling or falling in love.

For myth is at the beginning of literature, and also at its end.

The poverty of yesterday was less squalid than the poverty we purchase with our industry today. Fortunes were smaller then as well.