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

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

“France is the only place where you can make love in the afternoon without people hammering on your door.”

“This is the place you end up when you lose the chase,Where you're dragged against your will from a basement on a hill,And all anybody knows, is you're not like them,So they kick you in the head…and send you back to bed.<BR”

“You can't just plan a moment when things get back on track, just as you can't plan the moment you lose your way in the first place.”

“Have you ever tasted stale popcorn? The only thing worse is stale vision. If a ministry loses the vision, it's only a matter of time before they lose what made them special in the first place. Without vision, the people will quickly lose it.”

“That phrase, "loss of innocence," has become stale with overuse and diminishing returns; no other culture is so addicted to this narcissistic impression of itself as having any innocence to lose in the first place.”

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

“Anger has its place, but it will not serve you here, the way of the warrior is the way of knowing. Of that knowledge requires you to use anger, then you use anger, but you cannot wrest forth knowledge by losing your temper.”

“When we lose our myths we lose our place in the universe.”