"If you want to get laid, go to college. If you want an education, go to the library."
— Frank Zappa

"I have always imagined that Paradise will be some kind of library."
— Jorge Luis Borges

"And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country, have staunchly resisted anti-democratic bullies who have tried to remove certain books from their shelves, and have refused to reveal to thought police the names of persons who have checked out those titles.

So the America I loved still exists, if not in the White House or the Supreme Court or the Senate or the House of Representatives or the media. The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries."
— Kurt Vonnegut (A Man Without a Country)

"The man in black fled across the desert, and the gunslinger followed."
— Stephen King (The Gunslinger)

"Show some fucking adaptability!"
— Neal Stephenson (Cryptonomicon)

"For those who believe in God, most of the big questions are answered. But for those of us who can't readily accept the God formula, the big answers don't remain stone-written. We adjust to new conditions and discoveries. We are pliable. Love need not be a command nor faith a dictum. I am my own god. We are here to unlearn the teachings of the church, state, and our educational system. We are here to drink beer. We are here to kill war. We are here to laugh at the odds and live our lives so well that Death will tremble to take us."
— Charles Bukowski

"In wine there is wisdom, in beer there is Freedom, in water there is bacteria."
— Benjamin Franklin

"You only live once, but if you do it right, once is enough."
— Mae West