“Great readers (are) those who know early that there is never going to be time to read all there is to read, but do their darnedest anyway.”
Source: Walter Benjamin at the Dairy Queen: Reflections at Sixty and Beyond
“Much later, Alice would wonder what might have happened if she had gone to bed when she was supposed to.”
Source: The Forbidden Library
“Browsing through the shelves in bookstores or libraries, I was completely happy.”
Source: Education of a Wandering Man: A Memoir
“Life was not meant to be easy, but you can change the trajectory when you become a visionary and strive for victory.”
Source: A Manual for Victory
“Biblioteki są zapisami naszych czytelniczych porażek.
Jak mało w nich książek, które naprawdę nam się podobały. Jeszcze mniej takich, które podobają się nam przy kolejnej lekturze. Większość to pamiątki po ludziach, którymi chcieliśmy być. Których udawaliśmy. Których braliśmy za siebie.”
Source: Rzeczy, których nie wyrzuciłem
“Altogether, if I had to pick one place to hang out anywhere, from New York to Cape Town and Australia to Hong Kong, a bookstore would be it.”
Source: My Life on the Road
“Even the names of the books gave me food for thought.”
“Thus far, the only people who can grant you immortality are not scientists, but writers. By writing you into their books, they may not only immortalize you, but also grant you superpowers.”
“Books you have read share a deep ontological similarity with books you haven't: both can be profoundly fuzzy. At times books you haven't read shine more brightly than those you have, and often reading part of a book will shape your mind more decisively than reading all of it; there is no inherent epistemic superiority to having read a book or not having read it.”
Source: The Marvelous Clouds: Toward a Philosophy of Elemental Media
“The books I would like to print are the books I love to read and keep.”