“The public library is where place and possibility meet.”
“A good library is a place, a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet.”
“The public library is the most dangerous place in town”
“When you are growing up there are two institutional places that affect you most powerfully: the church, which belongs to God, and the public library, which belongs to you. The public library is a great equalizer.”
“A bridge is a meeting place . . . a possibility, a metaphor.”
“It is a great tool of dictators and tyrants, who want to get masses of people to do what they want, to make sure there are no libraries...The fact that there was no public library in Rwanda is one reason why genocide was possible.”