Deciding what is being talked about is a kind of interpretive bet.
I think a book should be judged 10 years later, after reading and re-reading it.
But it has often happened that I have found the most seductive depictions of sin in the pages of those very men of incorruptible virtue who condemned their spell and their effects.
The poets did not win; the philosophers surrendered.
I love the smell of book ink in the morning.
Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.