“But the best problem I ever found, I found in my local public library. I was just browsing through the section of math books and I found this one book, which was all about one particular problem -- Fermat's Last Theorem.”

“I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.”

“My first contact with game theory was a popular article in Fortune Magazine which I read in my last high school year. I was immediately attracted to the subject matter and when I studied mathematics I found the fundamental book by von Neumann and Morgenstern in the library and studied it.”

“Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me.”

“I gave up caring about anything, and all the problems disappeared.
And it was after that that I found out the truth. I learnt the truth last November — on the third of November, to be precise — and I remember every instant since.”

“I don't browse in bookshops, I browse in libraries, where you can take a book home and read it, and if you like it you go to a bookshop and buy it.”

“Sir, the fact that the book is in a public library brings no comfort. Books are the one element in which I am personally and nakedly acquisitive. If it weren't for the law I would steal them. If it weren't for my purse I would buy them.”

“The measure of an author's power would be best found in the book which he should sit down to write the day after his library was burnt to the ground.”

“A region is an area safely larger than the last one to whose problems we found no solution.”

“The problems of elites is an old one for which Americans have found no solid answer.”