“The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

“When a book leaves its author's desk it changes. Even before anyone has read it, before eyes other than its creator's have looked upon a single phrase, it is irretrievably altered. It has become a book that can be read, that no longer belongs to its maker. It has acquired, in a sense, free will. It will make its journey through the world and there is no longer anything the author can do about it. Even he, as he looks at its sentences, reads them differently now that they can be read by others. They look like different sentences. The book has gone out into the world and the world has remade it.”

“A real friend is the one who comes in when the whole world has gone out”

“It's cold and it's winter and the world has gone to sleep”

“We dreamed together of the world remade.”

“The books that influence the world are those that it has not read.”