Those who aspire to the status of cultured individuals visit bookstores with trepidation, overwhelmed by the immensity of all they have not read. The….

What does it matter how cultivated and up-to-date we are, or how many thousands of books we’ve read? What matters is how we feel, how we see, what we….

As publishing has become less expensive, the urge to write my own self has become the opportunity to publish my own self. Everyone now can afford to ….

The probability of finding a particular book increases in relation to the clarity of the store's focus, the diligence and shrewdness of the bookselle….

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

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities.

Confronted with the choice between having time and having things, we’ve chosen to have things. Today it is a luxury to read what Socrates said, not b….