There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

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

That is a real attitude - to see everything as being meaningful, even the less important things, to prove something, even the greater problems of life.

A newspaper can follow the compulsions, the desires of the readers. Take the English evening newspapers - they are following the readers' desires when they are interested only in the royal family gossip. But even the most objective, serious newspaper in the world designs the way in which the reader could or should think. That's unavoidable.

There are four types: the cretin, the imbecile, the stupid and the mad. Normality is a balanced mixture of all four.

Is it possible to say "It was a beautiful morning at the end of November" without feeling like Snoopy?

Only an unhinged movie survives as a disconnected series of images, of peaks, of visual icebergs. It should display not one central idea but many. It should not reveal a coherent philosophy of composition. It must live on, and because of, its glorious ricketiness.