“Every library is a library of preferences, and every chosen category implies an exclusion.”

“Every child in American should have access to a well-stocked school library. … An investment in libraries is an investment in our children's future.”

“… the air a library and the record of every life lived, every sentence spoken, every word transmitted still reverberating within it.”

“When I discovered libraries, it was like having Christmas every day.”

“If every library is in some sense a reflection of its readers, it is also an image of that which we are not, and cannot be.”

“It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed.”

“They blew up a library. They haven’t just offended me, they have attacked and insulted every single citizen of this place who used that library, who contributed to it, who even so much as might have used it someday in the future.”

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

“OKAY. So I was going to the library every Saturday. So what? So what? It's not like I was reading books or anything.”

“A library doesn't need windows. A library is a window.”