"Are you ready for the jumpscare? …No, you're not."

"His great novel "The Leopard" has certainly enlarged my life – an unusual experience for a life which is well on in its eighties. Reading and rereading it has made me realize how many ways there are o…"

"How can the Universe tell its own story save by making use of human speech; how convey its meanings to finite minds save by employing a thinker to declare them? So long as the story remains unspoken, …"

"Steal a loaf of bread and they hang you, steal a land and they'll make you king."

"It's the boredom that kills you. You read until you're tired of that. You do crossword puzzles until you're tired of that. This is torture. This is mental torture."