The unread story is not a story; it is little black marks on wood pulp. The reader, reading it, makes it live: a live thing, a story.
未被阅读的故事不是故事；它只是纸浆上的小黑点。读者在阅读时赋予它生命：一个活生生的东西，一个故事。
帮助人们的最佳方式是给予他们选择的自由，同时温和地引导他们走向正确的方向。
I have held many things in my hands, and I have lost them all; but whatever I have placed in God's hands, that I still possess.
I don’t know what the market is going to do. I just try to buy things that are cheap.
"A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements and clumsy hands. So the librarian protects the books not only against mankind but also against nature and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion."
The more successful I become, the more I need a man who is not intimidated by me.