The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.

Every reader exists to ensure for a certain book a modest immortality. Reading is, in this sense, a ritual of rebirth.

The love of libraries, like most loves, must be learned.

If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity.

One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances across different cultures and centuries.

Deserted libraries hold the shades of writers who worked within, and are haunted by their absence.

Entering a library, I am always stuck by the way in which a certain vision of the world is imposed upon the reader through its categories and its order.

I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books.

Ultimately, the number of books always exceeds the space they are granted.

Unpacking books is a revelatory activity.

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.

I can't go outside, I know to much to be out there and I had never liked people.

Early is a priceless timepiece owned by the successful.

I didn't want there to be a computer on stage. When I see people with computers on stage, I think, 'Are you sending e-mail?' That's so corny.

The prospect of going home is very appealing.

Every Irishman, the saying goes, has a potato in his head.

I like things bright.

I don't think that village idea of actually knowing what you're contributing to the whole exists anymore.

I just have a position that any child that's in a failing school should be able to get out, or be in a position to have that school fixed.

There's a whole split personality thing of being a farm girl and a rock and roll girl.

Judgment is more than skill. It sets forth on intellectual seas beyond the shores of hard indisputable factual information.