“Your library is your portrait.”

“Nagiko, I am waiting for you. Meet me at the library. Any library. Every library. Yours, Jerome.”

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

“America, why are your libraries full of tears?”

“Shut not your doors to me proud libraries.”

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

“There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.”

“Library-denigrators, pay heed: suggesting that the Internet is a viable substitute for libraries is like saying porn could replace your wife.”

“If something burns your soul with purpose and desire, it’s your duty to be reduced to ashes by it. Any other form of existence will be yet another dull book in the library of life.”

“your handwriting. the way you walk. which china pattern you choose. it's all giving you away. everything you do shows your hand. everything is a self portrait. everything is a diary.”