Carl Sandburg

Life is like an onion: you peel it off one layer at a time, and sometimes you weep.

Archibald MacLeish

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

Carson McCullers

"We wander, question. But the answer waits in each separate heart - the answer of our own identity and the way by which we can master loneliness and feel that at last we belong." (The Mortgaged Heart)