“Read, think well of mankind, go to our libraries and rejoice.”

“Oh, Mankind, rejoice in the apathy of our Creator, for it makes us free and truthful and dignified at last.”

“Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.”

“Don't join the book burners. Don't think you're going to conceal faults by concealing evidence that they ever existed. Don't be afraid to go in your library and read every book...”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”

“We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reach, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.”