“Some books make us dream, others bring us face to face with reality, but what matters most to the author is the honesty with which a book is written.”

“Like dreaming, reading performs the prodigious task of carrying us off to other worlds. But reading is not dreaming because books, unlike dreams, are subject to our will: they envelop us in alternative realities only because we give them explicit permission to do so. Books are the dreams we would most like to have, and, like dreams, they have the power to change consciousness, turning sadness to laughter and anxious introspection to the relaxed contemplation of some other time and place.”

“Some books leave us free and some books make us free.”

“Only what touches us closely preoccupies us. We prepare in solitude to face it. (The Little Book of Unsuspected Subversion)”

“No matter how plain a woman may be, if truth and honesty are written across her face, she will be beautiful.”

“Each of us is a book waiting to be written, and that book, if written, results in a person explained.”