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…

- Gabriel Zaid

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

- Gabriel Zaid

Wealth is above all an accumulation of possibilities

- Gabriel Zaid

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 …

- Gabriel Zaid

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…

- Gabriel Zaid

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…

- Gabriel Zaid

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

- Gabriel Zaid