“A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be 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.”

“He also said we should carve in the year and place where I was born, but I said no. As a man dies many times before he's dead, so does he wend from birth to birth until, by grace, he comes alive at last.”

“Either ghosts are a metaphor for history, or history is a metaphor for ghosts.”

“Tomas did not realize at the time that metaphors are dangerous. Metaphors are not to be trifled with. A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

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

“A single metaphor can give birth to love.”

“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.”