The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral port
We are all tourists in history, and irony is what we win in wars.
To be misunderstood can be the writer's punishment for having disturbed the reader's peace. The greater the disturbance, the greater the possibility of misunderstanding.
Travel is like adultery; one is always tempted to be unfaithful to one's own country. To have imagination is inevitably to be dissatisfied with where you live...in our wanderlust, we are lovers lookin...
There was a time when we expected nothing of our children but obedience, as opposed to the present, when we expect everything of them but obedience.
Lapped in poetry, wrapped in the picturesque, armed with logical sentences and inalienable words.
A good book is never exhausted. It goes on whispering to you from the wall. Books perfume and give weight to a room. A bookcase is as good as a view, as the sight of a city or a river. There are dawns...