“To lose yourself in a book is the desire of the bookworm. I mean to be taken. That is my desire.”

“The truly cultured are capable of owning thousands of unread books without losing their composure or their desire for more.”

“perhaps within me the desire to put off that which I most in the world desire of late keeps watch, I mean, to write a book but a wounded book, a contentious, broken book, a book not pleased to be a book, to be only a book, to be born in the absence of my friend, a book incapable of acting as if the last times were not upon us, but which at the same time cannot act as if it were only a book hence a being unaware of the end, unaware what time it is.”

“He that desires to print a book, should much more desire, to be a book.”

“Books mean all possibilities. They mean moving out of yourself, losing yourself, dying of thirst and living to your full. They mean everything.”

“Submission doesn't mean weakness; it means exploring your wants and desires and being strong enough to give control of yourself to someone else.”