“If life is a waltz then we need to enjoy each turn, savor each step, and not miss out on a single beat.”

“Hay algunas experiencias en tu vida que nunca olvidarías por más que quieras, como tu primer beso, tu primer amor, tu primer novio, tu primera vez, tu primer corazón roto. En fin...muchas otras cosas pero, entonces ¿cómo hacemos para olvidar esas pruebas que nos han hecho daño o nos han marcado para siempre?”

“Each book was a world unto itself, and in it I took refuge.”

“Life happened because I turned the pages.”

“I quickly learned that reading is cumulative and proceeds by geometrical progression: each new reading builds upon whatever the reader has read before.”

“From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.”

“We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction the warning that all we gather will be lost, but also that much of it can be collected again; we can learn from its splendid ambition that what was one man’s experience can become, through the alchemy of words, the experience of all, and how that experience, distilled once again into words, can serve each singular reader for some secret, singular purpose.”