The faith a movement proclaims doesn't count: what counts is the hope it offers. All heresies are the banner of a reality, an exclusion. Scratch the heresy and you will find the leper. Every battle against heresy wants only this: to keep the leper as he is.

A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. so the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion.

I write stories about conspiracies and paranoid characters while I am, in fact, a very skeptical person.

I developed a passion for the Middle Ages the same way some people develop a passion for coconuts.

I seal that which was not to be said in the tomb that I become.

I believe that you can reach the point where there is no longer any difference between developing the habit of pretending to believe and developing the habit of believing.

If somebody writes a book and doesn't care for the survival of that book, he's an imbecile.