"Every book, every volume you see here has a soul. The soul of the person who wrote it and of those who read it and lived and dreamed with it." The cemetery of Forgotten Books, page 5

"...few things leave a deeper mark on a reader than the first book that finds its way into his heart. Those first images, the echo of words we think have left behind, accopmpany us throughout our lives and sculpt a palace in our memory ..." The Cemetery of Forgotten Books, page 8

"Nobody knows much about women, not even Freud, not even women themselves. But it's like electricity: you don't have to know how it works to get a shock on the fingers." True to Character, Chapter 11, Page 90

"Like the good ape he is, man is a social animal, characterized by cronyism, nepotism, corruption and gossip." True to Character, Chapter 12, Page 96

"Julian lived in...