To all those men and women who will always find a place for themselves in a library more easily than in society, I dedicate this entertainment.
Book and reader, if they meet up at the right moment, it can make sparks fly, set you alight, change your life. It can, I promise you.
Love, for me, is something I find in books. You’re never alone if you are surrounded by books.
The only thing that consoles me is to be surrounded by people as depressed as I am. The readers down here, they’re seriously depressed and that cheers me up. You yourself for instance, if I can put this politely, you don’t exactly look like a bundle of laughs. No, don’t pretend, I can see right through you.
People apologize too much, everyone’s afraid of giving offence and it leads to literature being written for babies. Low-brow rubbish. That’s not the way to become an adult.
And in a library, one should never draw attention to oneself.