If one wanted to depict the whole thing graphically, every episode, with its climax, would require a three-dimensional, or, rather, no model: every experience is unrepeatable. What makes lovemaking and reading resemble each other most is that within both of them times and spaces open, different from measurable time and space.

The universe will express itself as long as somebody will be able to say, "I read, therefore it writes.

A classic is a book that has never finished saying what it has to say.

Reading is going toward something that is about to be, and no one yet knows what it will be.

Reading is solitude.

Reading is solitude. One reads alone, even in another's presence.

Today each of you is the object of the other’s reading, one reads in the other the unwritten story.

A classic is the term given to any book which comes to represent the whole universe, a book on a par with ancient talismans.

Your house, being the place in which you read, can tell us the position books occupy in your life, if they are a defense you set up to keep the outside world at a distance, if they are a dream into which you sink as if into a drug, or bridges you cast toward the outside, toward the world that interests you so much that you want to multiply and extend its dimensions through books.