With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.
Those who do not have power over the story that dominates their lives, the power to retell it, rethink it, deconstruct it, joke about it, and change it as they change, truly are powerless, because they cannot think new thoughts.
The march of science and technology does not imply growing intellectual complexity in the lives of most people. It often means the opposite.
一切皆有可能，但没有什么是一定的。
The past is always with us, for it feeds the present.