"Everything in the world exists in order to end up as a book." Stephan Mallarme
	"Seek ye out of the book of the Lord, and read."  Isaiah 34:16
	"The road to knowledge begins with the turn of the page." Anonymous
	"The sensation felt when touching paper differs from the coldness of metal or  the perfection of plastic as it radiates a core warmth that we expect to come  from a living object. Each fiber greets our hands in a comfortable, familiar  tradition that we were introduced to as children, and constantly thereafter in  school and at work. Most of the paper we use is bleached perfectly white with  just enough texture to reliably meet the rubber rollers of a copy machine. Yet  once in a while we are fortunate enough to encounter the kind of graphic design  that not only visually stimulates, but that we can also taste with   The Reactive Square - John Maeda
	"A book is a human-powered film projector (complete with feature film) that  advances at a speed fully customized to the viewer's mood or fancy. This rare harmony between object and user arises from the minimal skills required to manipulate a bound sequence of pages. Each piece of paper embodies a  corresponding instant of time which remains frozen until liberated by the  act of turning a page." The Reactive Square - John Maeda
	"We read about 1,000 times more than we write." Xerox PARC - Rich Gold
	"We think of an eBook as an intelligent pet." BeeHive Hypertext - Talan Memmot
	"Reading surrounds us, labels us, defines us." Xerox PARC - Rich Gold
	"The world is a book, and those who do not travel, read only a page." St. Augustine
	"It took people 10 years to figure out that while stuck in a morning commute, they could be listening to a book." Publishers Weekly - Paul Hilts
	"The illiterate of the 21st century will not be those who cannot read and write, but those who cannot learn, unlearn, and relearn." Alvin Toffler
	"Change can be scary. When papyrus replaced clay tablets, and the Gutenberg press calligraphy, did a bit of panic set in? Are we in the midst of a revolution of similar proportion? Very probably." Susan McLester
	A popular admonition goes “Don’t judge a book by its cover.” Yet we do it all the time. We ascribe qualities of character to people based on their physical characteristics. And our language takes shape to reflect that attitude. Anu Garg
	"A library, to modify the famous metaphor of Socrates, should be the delivery room for the birth of ideas—a place where history comes to life." Norman Cousins
	"We should not see print and electronic literature as in competition, but rather in conversation. The more voices that join in, the richer the dialogue is likely to be." N. Katherine Hayles
	"I cannot live without books." Thomas Jefferson
	"A good library is a palace where the lofty spirits of all nations and generations meet."Samuel Niger
	"I have always imagined that paradise will be a kind of library. Jorge Luis Borges
	"The public library is the most dangerous place in town. John Ciardi
	"A library is not a luxury but one of the necessities of life."Henry Ward Beecher
	"If information is the currency of democracy, then libraries are the banks.  Wendell Ford
	"Instead of going to Paris to attend lectures, go to the public library, and you won’t come out for twenty years, if you really wish to learn." Leo Tolstoy
	"A circulating library in a town is an evergreen tree of diabolical knowledge!  Richard Brinsley Sheridan
	"The closest thing we will ever come to an orderly universe is a good library.  Ashleigh Brilliant
	"Access to knowledge is the superb, the supreme act of truly great civilizations.  Of all the institutions that purport to do this, free libraries stand virtually alone in accomplishing this mission." Toni Morrison
	"The library is the temple of learning, and learning has liberated more people than all the wars in history. Carl Thomas Rowan
	"Throughout my formal education I spent many, many hours in public and school libraries.  Libraries became the courts of last resort, as it were.  The current definitive answer to almost any question can be found within the four walls of most libraries." Arthur Ashe
	"I think the health of our civilization, the depth of our awareness about the underpinnings of our culture and our concern for the future can all be tested by how well we support our libraries." Carl Sagan
	"The printed page transcends space and time. The printed page, the infinity of the book, must be transcended." The Electro-Library - El Lissitzky
	"When you realize the difference between the container and the content, you will  have knowledge."  The Book of the Book – Idries Shah
	"Of making many books there is no end, and much study is a weariness of the flesh." Ecclesiastes 12:12
	"Read o'er the volume of young Paris' face, And find delight writ there with beauty's pen. Examine every married lineament, And see how one another lends content, And what obscured in this fair volume lies Find written in the margin of his eyes. This precious book of love, this unbound lover, To beautify him, only lacks a cover. The fish lives in the sea, and 'tis much pride For fair without the fair within to hide. That book in many's eyes doth share the glory That in golden clasps locks in the story. So shall you share all that he doth possess, By having him making yourself no less." Lady Capulet talking to Juliet, compares the young lover's face  to a most captivating book and invites her to read in it with delight.  Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
	"The body of Benjamin Franklin Printer, Like the covering Of an old book Its contents torn out And stript of its lettering And gilding Lies here, food for worms; But the work Shall not be lost, It will (as he believed) Appear once more, In a new And more beautiful edition, Corrected and amended By the author." Epitaph for Benjamin Franklin
	"Books may well be the only true magic." Alice Hoffman
	"Books are the carriers of civilization…They are companions, teachers, magicians, bankers of the treasures of the mind.  Books are humanity in print."                         Barbara W. Tuchman
	"I grew up kissing books and bread." Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie
	"A book is a version of the world. If you do not like it, ignore it; or offer your own version in return." Imaginary Homelands - Salman Rushdie
	"It is with the reading of books the same as with looking at pictures; one must, without doubt, without hesitations, with assurance, admire what is beautiful."   Vincent van Gogh
	"Real education consists in drawing the best out of yourself. What better book can there be than the book of humanity?" Mohandas K. Gandhi
	"The true university of these days is a collection of books." The Hero as Man of Letters - Thomas Carlyle
	“What is the use of a book,” thought Alice, “without pictures or conversations?  Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland
	"For books are more than books. They are the life, the very heart and core of ages past, the reason why men lived and worked and died, the essence and quintessence of their lives." Amy Lowell
	"The age of the book is about gone." George Steiner
	"I cannot live without books." In a letter to John Adams - Thomas Jefferson
	"If there’s a book you really want to read but it hasn’t been written yet, then you must write it." Toni Morrison
	"Keep reading books, but remember that a book’s only a book, and you should learn  to think for yourself." Maxim Gorky
	"I find television very educational. Every time someone turns it on, I go in the other room and read a book." Groucho Marx
	"There is no reason why the same man should like the same books at eighteen and  at forty-eight." ABC of Reading - Ezra Pound
	"Only in books has mankind known perfect truth, love and beauty." George Bernard Shaw
	"What in the world would we do without our libraries?" Katharine Hepburn
	"I’ve been drunk for about a week now, and I thought it might sober me up to sit  in a library." The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
	"Wherever they burn books they will also, in the end, burn human beings." Almansor - Heinrich Heine
	"Books cannot be killed by fire. People die, but books never die. No man and no force can take from the world the books that embody man's eternal fight against tyranny.  In this war, we know, books are weapons." Message to the American Booksellers Association - Franklin Delano Roosevelt
	"Even bad books are books, and therefore sacred." The Tin Drum - Gunther Grass
	"God forbid that any book should be banned. The practice is as indefensible as infanticide." The Strange Necessity - Rebecca West
	"The portability of the book, like that of the easel painting, added much to the new cult of individualism." The Gutenburg Galaxy - Marshall McLuhan
	"A person who publishes a book appears willfully in public with his pants down." Edna St. Vincent Millay
	"Still, the E-book is not a passing thing, but here to stay as it becomes cheaper and improved. Nonetheless, it is really no more than a screen upon which to read, and it is clear that when enough people start reading them, electronic books will do for the ophthalmologists what taffy and caramels did for dentists." In The New York Times - Martin Arnold
	"Classic—a book people praise and don’t read." Following the Equator - Mark Twain
	"Every book is a failure." George Orwell
	"There are books of which the backs and covers are by far the best parts." Charles Dickens
	"I think we ought to read only the kind of books that wound and stab us."  Franz Kafka
	"Every man must die sooner or later, but good books must be preserved." Don Vincente
	"You can never be too thin, too rich, or have too many books." Vogue - Carter Burden
	"Book-love, I say again, lasts throughout life, it never flags or fails, but, like Beauty itself, is a joy forever." The Anatomy of Bibliomana Vol.II - Holbrook Jackson
	"The written word remains. The spoken word takes wing and cannot be recalled." Anonymous

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