"Digestion of words as well; I often read aloud to myself in my writing corner in the library, where no one can hear me, for the sake of better savouring the text, so as to make it all the more mine."
"If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be."
"In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond."
"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."
"But at night, when the library lamps are lit, the outside world disappears and nothing but the space of books remains in existence."
"Unpacking books is a revelatory activity."