“[Public] libraries should be open to all—except the censor.[Response to questionnaire in Saturday Review, October 29 1960]”
“My life is an open library”
“A system is in equilibrium when the forces constituting it are arranged in such a way as to compensate each other, like the two weights pulling at the arms of a pair of scales.”
“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.”
“All of the life-changing awesomewords and pictures and ideasinside your library are uselesswithout just one word outsideyour library: Open.”