The library is not only a diary of the human race, but marks an act of faith in the continuity of humanity.

The universe is not going to see someone like you again in the entire history of creation.

The library is central to our free society. It is a critical element in the free exchange of information at the heart of our democracy.

It is very important that, no matter what happens, you keep your feeling of self worth and value.

Libraries keep the records on behalf of all humanity. the unique and the absurd, the wise and the fragments of stupidity.

Dignity is not negotiable. Dignity is the honor of the family.

Libraries and museums are the DNA of our culture.

Everybody is somebody, so you don't have to introduce anybody.

The library is our house of intellect, our transcendental university, with one exception: no one graduates from a library. No one possibly can, and no one should.

The book is here to stay. What we're doing is symbolic of the peaceful coexistence of the book and the computer.

It meant that New York philanthropists, New York society, would now rediscover the library. ... that learning, books, education have glamour, that self-improvement has glamour, that hope has glamour.

I should like to understand more about the signs on the shirt you wore earlier. What was it: Eat the tail and suck the head?

Getting people to like you is merely the other side of liking them.

All dogs can be guide dogs of a sort, leading us to places we didn't even know we needed or wanted to go.

I'm going to do what I want to do. I'm going to be who I really am. I'm going to figure out what that is.

He who is afraid to use an "I" in his writing will never make a good writer.

I don't want to know what people are doing. Like, I don't need to know who's got a new music video and who's got a new lipstick.

Horror films do not prepare us for the hours lost in searching after one clear thought.

There is nothing love cannot face; there is limit to its faith, its hope and endurance.

A desire that has never been fulfilled is considerably less acute than one that has been fulfilled and then checked at the source.

The qualities we possess should never be a matter for satisfaction, but the qualities we have discarded.