That's the good part of dying; when you've nothing to lose, you run any risk you want.

The good writers touch life often. The mediocre ones run a quick hand over her. The bad ones rape her and leave her for the flies.

You don’t question Providence. If you can’t have the reality, a dream is just as good.

There must be something in books, something we can’t imagine, to make a woman stay in a burning house; there must be something there. You don’t stay for nothing.

A book has got to smell. You have to hold it in your hands and pray to it.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

The Universe has shouted itself alive. We are one of the shouts.