“Every library should try to complete on something, if it were only the history of pinheads.”
“[Telzey] took out a pocket edition law library and sat down at the table. She clicked on the library's viewscreen, tapped the clearing and index buttons. Behind the screen, one of the multiple rows of pinhead tapes shifted slightly as the index was flicked into reading position.”
“A little library, growing every year, is an honorable part of a man’s history. It is a man’s duty to have books.”
“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas - a place where history comes to life.”
“they should let some people into the library by prescription only”
“Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.”