The library, especially the large public library, with its endless supply of books, offered more possibilities than the ideals of philanthropists and administrators. ~ Matthew Battles, Library: An Unquiet History

I read, I say. I study and read. I bet I've read everything you've read. Don't think I haven't. I consume libraries. I wear out spines and ROM-drives. I do things like get in a taxi and say, “The library, and step on it.” ~ David Foster Wallace

Librarians are the secret masters of the universe. They control information. ~ Spider Robinson

A public library is the most enduring of memorials, the trustiest monument for the presentation of an event or a name or an affection; for it, and it only, is respected by wars and revolutions, and survives them. ~ Mark Twain

If information is the currency of democracy, libraries are its bank. ~ Wendell Ford

Perhaps no place is so totally democratic as the town library. The only entrance requirement is interest. ~ Lady Bird Johnson

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