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

You don't fall in love because you fall in love; you fall in love because of the need, desperate, to fall in love. when you feel that need, you have to watch your step: like having drunk a philter, the kind that makes you fall in love with the first thing you meet. It could be a duck-billed platypus.

Better reality than a dream: if something is real, then it's real and you're not to blame.

A great problem of the internet is how to filter information, how to discard what is not relevant or what is silly and to keep only the important information.

For such is the fate of parody: it must never fear exaggerating. If it strikes home, it will only prefigure something that others will then do without a smile--and without a blush--in steadfast virile seriousness.

The cultivated person's first duty is to be always prepared to rewrite the encyclopedia.

The author may not interpret. But he must tell why and how he wrote his book.