“The best of my education has come from the public library... my tuition fee is a bus fare and once in a while, five cents a day for an overdue book. You don't need to know very much to start with, if you know the way to the public library.”
“You wasted $150,000 on an education you coulda got for $1.50 in late fees at the public library.”
“The public library is a center of public happiness first, of public education next.”
“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the American public has been making for over thirty years.”
“The library, I believe, is the last of our public institutionsto which you can go without credentials.You don't even need the sticker on your windshieldthat you need to get into the public beach.All you need is the willingness to read.”
“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”