Being a professional philosopher is, I would say, feeling natural to think about small and great problems. It is the only pleasure.

When one starts writing a book, especially a novel, even the humblest person in the world hopes to become Homer.

I am an old consumer of papers. I cannot avoid reading my newspapers every morning.

Narrativity presumes a special taste for plot. And this taste for plot was always very present in the Anglo-Saxon countries and that explains their high quality of detective novels.

It takes a little time, but the pleasures of cooking begin before the pleasures of the palate, and preparing means anticipating.

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

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.