Nothing is more fleeting than external form, which withers and alters like the flowers of the field at the appearance of autumn.

Then why do you want to know?" "Because learning does not consist only of knowing what we must or we can do, but also of knowing what we could do and perhaps should not do.

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

It is a myth of publishers that people want to read easy things.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

It is psychologically very hard to go through life without the justification, and the hope, provided by religion.

There are more people than you think who want to have a challenging experience, in which they are obliged to reflect about the past.