One book calls to another unexpectedly, creating alliances a... - Alberto Manguel, The Library at Night

"If justice takes place, there may be hope, even in the face of a seemingly capricious divinity."

"It hardly matters why a library is destroyed: every banning, curtailment, shredding, plunder or loot gives rise (at least as a ghostly presence) to a louder, clearer, more durable library of the banned, looted, plundered, shredded or curtailed."

"There is a line of poetry, a sentence in a fable, a word in an essay, by which my existence is justified; find that line, and immortality is assured."

"Readers, censors know, are defined by the books they read."

"I like to imagine that, on the day after my last, my library and I will crumble together, so that even when I am no more I'll still be with my books."