Alberto Manguel Quotes - Page 2

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

From fire, water, the passage of time, neglectful readers, and the hand of the censor, each of my books has escaped to tell me its story.

There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured.