Les livres ont les mêmes ennemis que l'homme : le feu, l'humide, les bêtes, le temps, et leur propre contenu.

L'éducation ne se borne pas à l'enfance et à l'adolescence. L'enseignement ne se limite pas à l'école. Toute la vie, notre milieu est notre éducation, et un éducateur à la fois sévère et dangereux. Learning transcends childhood and adolescence just as teaching transcends the classroom. Our environment is the most strict and dangerous educator we will ever have.

What one wrote playfully, another reads with tension and passion; what one wrote with tension and passion, another reads playfully.

God made everything out of nothing. But the nothingness shows through.

God created man and, finding him not sufficiently alone, gave him a companion to make him feel his solitude more keenly