Basil Grows

“It is what you read when you don't have to that determines what you will be when you can't help it.”
― Oscar Wilde

“Make it a rule never to give a child a book you would not read yourself.”
― George Bernard Shaw

“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

“A room without books is like a body without a soul.”
― Marcus Tullius Cicero