A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

My business is to prevent the future.

Impossible; for how many people did you know who refracted your own light to you?

I sometimes get up at night when I can't sleep and walk down into my library and open one of my books and read a paragraph and say, 'My God, did I write that?

You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

Sometimes I think I understand everything. Then I regain consciousness