“I think we ought to live happily ever after.”

“Happiness isn't a thing. You can't go out and get it like a cup of tea. It's the way you feel about things.”

“To love someone enough to let them go, you had to let them go forever or you did not love them that much.”

“Learn to drive?""Never," said Quentin. "My mission in life is to be a passenger.”

“Nobody gets praised for the right reasons.”

“You must admit I have a right to live in a pigsty if I want.”

“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. ”