A transposable aphorism is a malaise of the urge to be witty, or in other words, a maxim that is untroubled by the fact that the opposite of what it says is equally true so long as it appears to be funny.

The only truth lies in learning to free ourselves from insane passion for the truth.

I have to admit that I only read War and Peace when I was 40. But I knew the basics before then.

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

I love the smell of book ink in the morning.

Naturally, everything depends on one's background books and on what one is looking for.

After years of practice, I can walk into a bookstore and understand its layout in a few seconds. I can glance at the spine of a book and make a good guess at its content from a number of signs.