“The distracted person, too, can form habits.”

“You could tell a lot about a man by the books he keeps - his tastes, his interest, his habits.”

“All human knowledge takes the form of interpretation.”

“The film is the first art form capable of demonstrating how matter plays tricks on man.”

“The only way of knowing a person is to love them without hope.”

“In other words, the unique value of the 'authentic' work of art has its basis in ritual, the location of its original use value. This ritualistic basis, however remote, is still recognizable as secularized ritual even in the most profane forms of the cult of beauty.”

“Books, too, begin like the week – with a day of rest in memory of their creation. The preface is their Sunday.”