I am acutely aware that you have not elected me as your President by your ballots, so I ask you to confirm me with your prayers.
“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.”
“I like to be surprised. The best writing is when it defies me, when it starts going a different way than I had planned.”