“Every Librarian is a highly trained agent. An expert in intelligence, counterintelligence, Boolean searching, and hand-to-hand combat.”

“Since at least the Sixth Century all librarians have received extensive combat training and are lethal with even the common toothpick.”

“There is no doubt that to the ancients of circa 100 A.S., games implied bloodshed; but gladiators' hand-to-hand combats to the death featured in Hollywood movies are overdone, since gladiators were splendid physical specimens who took a long time to be selected and trained and were not easily dispensable.”

“Despite my firm convictions, I have been always a man who tries to face facts, and to accept the reality of life as new experience and new knowledge unfolds it. I have always kept an open mind, which is necessary to the flexibility that must go hand in hand with every form of intelligent search for truth.”

“Life on earth is hand-to-hand mortal combat . . . between the law of love and the law of hate.”

“Intelligence isn't measured in the way you speak or how high your degrees are, it's in the art that your hand and mind projects.”