“Rings try to find their way back to their owner. Someone ought to write a book about it.”
“Listening to other opinions was invariably more profitable than antagonizing their owners by pointing out tiresome objections.”
“In the shop we buy & sell them, but in truth books have no owner.”
“a book always keeps something of its owner between its pages.”
“The stories that unfold in the space of a writer's study, the objects chosen to watch over a desk, the books selected to sit on the shelves, all weave a web of echoes and reflections of meanings and affections, that lend a visitor the illusion that something of the owner of this space lives on between these walls, even if the owner is no more.”