“Libraries change lives. They are the soul of a people.”

“At the moment that we persuade a child, any child, to cross that threshold, that magic threshold into a library, we change their lives forever, for the better”

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs.”

“Rich people have small TVs and big libraries, and poor people have small libraries and big TVs. ”

“All of the life-changing awesome
words and pictures and ideas
inside your library are useless
without just one word outside
your library: Open.”

“Human beings can lose their lives in libraries. They ought to be warned.”

“Most people sell their souls, and live with a good conscience on the proceeds.”

“I attempted briefly to consecrate myself in the public library, believing every crack in my soul could be chinked with a book.”

“In the library I felt better, words you could trust and look at till you understood them, they couldn't change half way through a sentence like people, so it was easier to spot a lie.”

“People can't live with change if there's not a changeless core inside them.”