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

“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.”

“If the library in the morning suggests an echo of the severe and reasonable wishful order of the world, the library at night seems to rejoice in the world's essential, joyful muddle. ”

“The world encyclopedia, the universal library, exists, and it is the world itself.”

“Saint John, in a moment of confusion, tells us not to love the world because "all that is in the world, the lust of the flesh, and the lust of the eyes, and the pride of life,is not of the Father, ...”

“We are losing our common vocabulary, built over thousands of years to help and delight and instruct us, for the sake of what we take to be the new technology's virtues. ”

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”

“When no one is left to tell what happened, family histories keep their secrets.”

“Nostalgia is powerful. It is natural, human to long for the past, particularly when we can remember our histories as better than they were.”