“Real museums are places where Time is transformed into Space.”

“Poverty does not belong in civilized human society. Its proper place is in a museum. That's where it will be.”

“Besides the alternate universe offered by a book, the quiet space of a museum was my favorite place to go. My mom said I was an escapist at heart . . . that I preferred imaginary worlds to the real one. It’s true that I’ve always been able to yank myself out of this world and plunge myself into another.”

“My library was -- all libraries are -- a place of ultimate refuge, a wild and sacred space where meanings are manageable precisely because they aren't binding; and where illusion is comfortingly real. To read, to think, to trace words back to their origins real or presumed; to invent; to dare to imagine. "The Rights of Desire”

“and yet I feel that the most real home I'll ever have is the space where our roads merged and traveled along together... for a time.”

“Each place is the right place--the place where I now am can be a sacred space. (3)”