“A library is the delivery room for the birth of ideas, a place where history comes to life.”

“Libraries are places where the damaged go to find friends”

“A real education takes place, not in the lecture hall or library, but in the rooms of friends, with earnest frolic and happy disputation.”

“I'm not interested in being Wonder Woman in the delivery room. Give me drugs.”

“So much of life ahead
We'll find a place where there's room to grow,
And yes, we've just begun.”

“A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you.”

“A library is a place where you can lose your innocence without losing your virginity.”

“[T]he only place on earth where immortality is provided is in libraries. This is the collective memory of humanity.”

“A room is, after all, a place where you hide from the wolves. That's all any room is.”

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