I always knew that I wanted to live with books, even as a child, because we traveled a lot. Home was the book to which I came back every evening.

The telling of stories creates the real world.

A society can exist - many do exist - without writing, but no society can exist without reading.

At night, here in the library, the ghosts have voices.

We can imagine the books we'd like to read, even if they have not yet been written, and we can imagine libraries full of books we would like to possess, even if they are well beyond our reacher, because we enjoy dreaming up a library that reflects every one of our interests and every one of our foibles--a library that, in its variety and complexity, fully reflects the reader we are.

In my fool hardy youth, when my friends were dreaming of heroic deeds in the realms of engineering and law, finance and national politics, I dreamt of becoming a librarian.

Evil requires no reason.