I have said repeatedly that in this country we track library books better than we do sex offenders.

This is, after all, a country that still sees the Taliban as the legitimate government of Afghanistan and still fails to recognize Israel as a sovereign state.

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.

Overall, the library held a hushed exultation, as though the cherished volumes were all singing soundlessly within their covers.

My grandma always said that God made libraries so that people didn't have any excuse to be stupid.

In a library we are surrounded by many hundreds of dear friends imprisoned by an enchanter in paper and leathern boxes.