A library doesn’t need windows. A library is a window.
Stewart Brand
A book is a fragile creature, it suffers the wear of time, it fears rodents, the elements, clumsy hands. So the librarian protects them not only against mankind but also against nature, and devotes his life to this war with the forces of oblivion, the enemy of truth.
Umberto Eco
A poet’s hope: to be,
like some valley cheese,
local, but prized elsewhere.
W. H. Auden, 1907 – 1973
When you have a strongly held belief, don’t you think it’s important to express that belief accurately?
Michael Crichton, 1942 – 2008