The more things you know, or pretend to know, the more powerful you are. It doesn't matter if the things are true. What counts, remember, is to possess a secret.

There are two kinds of friendship: one is genuine affection, the other is inability to refuse.

Libraries can take the place of God.

libraries are fascinating places: sometimes you feel you are under the canopy of a railway station, and when you read books about exotic places there's a feeling of travelling to distant lands

In short, Roberto privately concluded, if you would avoid wars, never make treaties of peace.

You cannot escape one infinite, I told myself, by fleeing to another. You cannot escape the revelation of the identical by taking refuge in the illusion of the multiple.

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