Librarians are essential players in the information revolution because they level that field. They enable those without money or education to read and learn the same things as the billionaire and the PhD.

Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.