...killing rats wasn’t in my job description.

There was the smell of old books, a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.

When I tell people I went to library school, the most common reaction is either “You’re joking, right?” or “They have schools for librarians? Do they teach you how to properly sssh people?

We don’t have to destroy the library of the past. We just need to give it a face-lift.

The loudest elderly women always had the quietest elderly husbands.

To be great at something, you must look to the great ones of thepast and improve on the ideas and techniques that they started. Iwas motivated to do better—to improve on the ideas of others.

I am convinced that grandkids are inherently evil people who tell their grandparents to "just go to the library and open up an e-mail account - it's free and so simple.

Whom the gods love dies young

Motherhood: All love begins and ends there.

For the alchemist the one primarily in need of redemption is not man, but the deity who is lost and sleeping in matter.

Death aims with fouler spiteAt fairer marks.

I think UKIP [ UK Independence Party] and the BNP [British National Party] are very, very English concerns. If they gather strength they're going to add to this schism between Scotland and England.

In his youth Michael Owen was literally a greyhound.

It is true that there are few plays of Shakespeare that I haven't done.

If anybody said that I should die if I did not take beef-tea or mutton, even under medical advice, I would prefer death.

Till we attain immortality, all life will remain just an illusion!

To become a popular religion, it is only necessary for a superstition to enslave a philosophy.