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The library was the place I went to find out what there was to know. It was absolutely essential.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Your library is your paradise.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

I have three libraries. As a gift, a friend alphabetized and organized my main library of novels, history books, and nonfiction. Then I have a photo-book collection. Then there's this nearly whole room of my childhood books. I've also got cookbooks and a big collection of horse-related books.

A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life.

My books are very few, but then the world is before me - a library open to all - from which poverty of purse cannot exclude me - in which the meanest and most paltry volume is sure to furnish something to amuse, if not to instruct and improve.

The things that are really important to me are my man, my animals and my books. I don't need anything else.

To a historian libraries are food, shelter, and even muse.