I had found my religion: nothing seemed more important to me than a book. I saw the library as a temple.

The library had become her solace. Her refuge.Books did not question or judge. They made safe companions.

First paycheck I get, I thought, I'm going to get myself a room near the downtown L.A. Public Library.

Standing there, staring at the long shelves crammed with books, I felt myself relax and was suddenly at peace.

You build a thousand castles, a thousand sanctuaries, you are nothing; you build a library, you are everything!

He’s at the library, I think. Safe and sound in his world of books... Maybe he’ll write one someday.

The three most important documents a free society gives are a birth certificate, a passport, and a library card.

I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

If you have a garden and a library, you have everything you need."(Si hortum in bibliotheca habes, deerit nihil.)

That perfect tranquility of life, which is nowhere to be found but in retreat, a faithful friend and a good library.

With a little effort, anything can be shown to connect with anything else: existence is infinitely cross-referenced.

He liked bookstores, and libraries too. They had a sacred, peaceful hush, like graveyards without the shadow of death.

In the end, I go where I always go when I need information on something baffling, poisonous, or terrifying: the library.

It was an epoch of her life, an hour never to be forgotten, this first coming into relation with a really noble library.

Collect books, even if you don’t plan on reading them right away. Nothing is more important than an unread library.