“For me the greatest joy is to be able to submerge myself for a few hours every day in a human time that otherwise would be alien to me. A lifetime is not enough.”

“I fuck with every book, and if I don’t leave a mark, there’s no orgasm.”

“It is often much harder to get rid of books than to acquire them. They stick to us in that pact of need and oblivion we make with them, witnesses to a moment in our lives we will never see again. While they are still there, it is part of us.”

“To build up a library is to create a life. It's never just a random collection of books.”

“Os livros mudam o destino das pessoas”

“Ninguém quer extraviar um livro. Preferimos perder um anel, um relógio, o chapéu-de-chuva, do que o livro cujas páginas não mais leremos mas que conservam, na sonoridade do seu título, uma antiga e talvez perdida emoção.”

“A mi solo me gustaria estar en un lugar donde nunca me tuviera que ir.”