“A library could show you everything if you knew where to look.”

“If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need.”

“The humble little school library ... was a ramp to everythingin the world and beyond, everything that could be dreamed andimagined, everything that could be known, everything that could be hoped.”

“The best teachers are those who show you where to look, but don't tell you what to see.”

“Come indoors then, and open the books on your library shelves. For you have a library and a good one. A working library, a living library; a library where nothing is chained down and nothing is locked up; a library where the songs of the singers rise naturally from the lives of the livers.”

“She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time. And she was wonderfully unhinged.”