#library

"I wanted a library like this...[] A cave of words that I'd made myself."

"Never lend books, for no one ever returns them; the only books I have in my library are books that other folks have lent me."

"Libraries are not made; they grow. Good as it is to inherit a library, it is better to collect one."

"I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple."

"Libraries raised me."

"The contents of someone's bookcase are part of his history, like an ancestral portrait."(About Books; Recoiling, Rereading, Retelling, New York Times, February 22, 1987)"

"An ordinary man can surround himself with two thousand books and thenceforward have at least one place in the world in which it is always possible to be happy."

"Second hand books are wild books, homeless books; they have come together in vast flocks of variegated feather, and have a charm which the domesticated volumes of the library lack."

"I couldn't live a week without a private library - indeed, I'd part with all my furniture and squat and sleep on the floor before I'd let go of the 1500 or so books I possess."

"She'd always been a little excitable, a little more passionate about books than your average person, but she was supposed to be -- she was a librarian, after all."

"His library was a fine dark place bricked with books, so anything could happen there and always did. All you had to do was pull a book from the shelf and open it and suddenly the darkness was not so dark anymore."

"In a library, no empty shelf remains empty for long."

"How can you be nervous? Don't you see? We're in a library."

"The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man"

"I always say that the real success of Wine Library wasn't due to the videos I posted, but to the hours I spent talking to people online afterward, making connections and building relationships."

"In the dark, with the windows lit and the rows of books glittering, the library is a closed space, a universe of self-serving rules that pretend to replace or translate those of the shapeless universe beyond."

"My library is an archive of longings."

"I’m a book lover. I’ve probably already fucked a whole library."

"It has long been my belief that everyone's library contains an Odd Shelf. On this shelf rests a small, mysterious corpus of volumes whose subject matter is completely unrelated to the rest of the library, yet which, upon closer inspection, reveals a good deal about its owner."

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be a kind of library."