Books make great gifts because they have whole worlds inside of them.

People are curious. A few people are. They will be driven to find things out, even trivial things. They will put things together, knowing all along that they may be mistaken. You see them going around with notebooks, scraping the dirt off gravestones, reading microfilm, just in the hope of seeing this trickle in time, making a connection, rescuing one thing from the rubbish.

The true measure of success is not just profit, but the impact you leave on people and the environment.

We are all prisoners of our own memories.

I don’t believe in an afterlife. This is it. Make the most of it.