Libraries have always been humanities' way of preserving its collective wisdom

Today I realize that many recent exercises in "deconstructive reading" read as if inspired by my parody. This is parody's mission: it must never be afraid of going too far. If its aim is true, it simply heralds what others will later produce, unblushing, with impassive and assertive gravity.

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

Followers of the occult believe in only what they already know, and in those things that confirm what they have already learned.

Listening doesn't mean trying to understand. Anything, however trifling, may be of use one day. What matters is to know something that others don't know you know.

Books always speak of other books.

Libraries can take the place of God.