Until then I had thought each book spoke of the things, human or divine, that lie outside books. Now I realized that not infrequently books speak of books: it is as if they spoke among themselves. In the light of this reflection, the library seemed all the more disturbing to me. It was then the place of a long, centuries-old murmuring, an imperceptible dialogue between one parchment and another, a living thing, a receptacle of powers not to be ruled by a human mind, a treausre of secrets emanated by many minds, surviving the death of those who had produced them or had been their conveyors.

Show not what has been done, but what can be. How beautiful the world would be if there were a procedure for moving through labyrinths.

You are always born under the wrong sign, and to live in this world properly you have to rewrite your own horoscope day by day.

In other words, although I don't like them, we do need noble-spirited souls.

The question of manuscript changes is very important for literary criticism, the psychology of creation and other aspects of the study of literature.

As an adolescent I wrote comic books, because I read lots of them, and fantasy novels set in Malaysia and Central Africa.

Hypotyposis is the rhetorical effect by which words succeed in rendering a visual scene.