I have never known any distress that an hour's reading did not relieve.
The end of history will be a very sad time. The struggle for recognition, the willingness to risk one's life for a purely abstract goal, the worldwide ideological struggle that called forth daring, courage, imagination, and idealism, will be replaced by economic calculation, the endless solving of technical problems, environmental concerns, and the satisfaction of sophisticated consumer demands.
La literatura es una forma de resistencia contra la banalidad del mundo.
The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.
The only limits that exist are the ones you place on yourself.