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

Originality and creativity are nothing but the result of the wise management of combinations. The creative genius combines more rapidly, and with a greater critical sense of what gets tossed out and what gets saved, the same material that the failed genius has to work with.

Not that the incredulous person doesn't believe in anything. It's just that he doesn't believe in everything.

I don't see the point of having 80 million people online if all they are doing in the end is talking to ghosts in the suburbs.

I am not on Facebook and on Twitter because the purpose of my life is to avoid messages. I receive too many messages from the world, and so I try to avoid that.

Perhaps I am not as wise as I like to think I am.

A book is a fragile creature. It suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands.