"Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."
— Richard Powers

"In that weekly ecstatic keeping of faith and bearing of witness, Delia fell in love with singing. Singing was something that might make sense of a person. Singing might make more sense of life than living had to start with."
— Richard Powers (The Time of Our Singing: A Novel)

""Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind" "
— Richard Powers