One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries..

I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening..

We can roam the bloated stacks of the Library of Alexandria, where all imagination and knowledge are assembled; we can recognize in its destruction t….

We read to understand, or to begin to understand. We cannot do but to read. Reading almost as much as breathing, is our essential function..