“Love has nothing to do with what you are expecting to get - only with what you are expecting to give - which is everything”

“Life is hard. After all, it kills you.”

“If you want to sacrifice the admiration of many men for the criticism of one, go ahead, get married.”

“The calla lilies are in bloom again. Such a strange flowersuitable to any occasion. I carried them on my wedding day, and now I place them here in memory of something that has died.”

“Death will be a great relief. No more interviews.”

“Now how can anybody look at that and not believe in God? I mean, how can anybody look at this and not believe there is some higher power, some divine force at work in the universe greater than Man,...”

“my first recommendation to people in charge of science education is, more money for public libraries and museums. Public libraries and museums ought to be as common as schools.”

“Society was the only threat to the sanctity of selfhood: an unpatroned library was an orderly library.”

“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. ”

“It was four o'clock of a stickily wet Saturday. As long as it is anything from Monday to Friday the average library attendant goes around thanking her stars she isn't a school-teacher; but the last...”

“The world is quiet here.”

“I've always said, stuff the engagement ring! Just build me a really big library.”