“A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”

“It ain't have no place in the world that exactly like a place where a lot of men get together to look for work and draw money from the Welfare State while they ain't working. Is a kind of place where hate and disgust and avarice and malice and sympathy and sorrow and pity all mix up. Is a place where everyone is your enemy and your friend.”

“I love order. It's my dream. A world where all would be silent and still, and each thing in its last place, under the last dust.”

“For I shall be far away, before these lines are read, in a place where no one will dream of coming to look for me.”

“The creation of the world did not take place once and for all time, but takes place every day.”

“Knowledge is of two kinds. We know a subject ourselves, or we know where we can find information upon it. When we enquire into any subject, the first thing we have to do is to know what books have treated of it. This leads us to look at catalogues, and at the backs of books in libraries.”

“let us say before i go any further, that i forgive nobody. i wish them all an atrocious life in the fires of icy hell and in the execrable generations to come.”