"Bea says that the art of reading is slowly dying, that it's an intimate ritual, that a book is a mirror that offers us only what we already carry inside us, that when we read, we do it with all our heart and mind, and great readers are becoming more scarce by the day."
"A story is a letter that the author writes to himself, to tell himself things that he would be unable to discover otherwise."
"There are few reasons for telling the truth, but for lying the number is infinite."
"People talk too much. Humans aren't descended from monkeys. They come from parrots."
"After a while it occurred to me that between the covers of each of those books lay a boundless universe waiting to be discovered while beyond those walls, in the outside world, people allowed life to pass by in afternoons of football and radio soaps, content to do little more than gaze at their navels."
"Fools talk, cowards are silent, wise men listen."