"When I met him, I soon found something strange and rare: between us there was a certain fellow feeling, without our knowing why or of what nature. We began talking about books and that discussion never stopped. I think it all happened like this because we have a shared conviction: we both believe that by talking about books one enters a space that is much vaster, lighter, and freer than when one talks about the world or, worse still, about personal matters. Perhaps people become publishers just to endlessly prolong a conversation on books."
— Roberto Calasso and Richard Dixon, The Art of the Publisher