“You will be transformed by what you read.”

“What you are the world is. And without your transformation, there can be no transformation of the world.”

“If you begin to understand what you are without trying to change it, then what you are undergoes a transformation.”

“To read is to struggle to name, to subject the sentences of a text to a semantic transformation. This transformation is erratic; it consists in hesitating among several names: if we are told that Sarrasine had 'one of those strong wills that know no obstacle'. what are we to read? will, energy, obstinacy, stubbornness, etc.?”

“Read widely, and without apology. Read what you want to read, not what someone tells you you should read.”

“What is wonderful about great literature is that it transforms the man who reads it towards the condition of the man who wrote.”