A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

Nothing gives a fearful man more courage than another's fear.

Yesterday's rose endures in its name, we hold empty names.

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.

A library's ideal function is to be a little bit like a bouquiniste's stall, a place for trouvailles.

What did I really think fifteen years ago? A nonbeliever, I felt guilty in the midst of all those believers. And since it seemed to me that they were in the right, I decided to believe, as you might decide to take an aspirin: It can't hurt and you might get better.

A dream is a scripture, and many scriptures are nothing but dreams.