There was the smell of old books....

...a smell that has a way of making all libraries seem the same. Some say that smell is asbestos.  

Scott Douglas

If truth is beauty....

How come no one has their hair done in the library?

Lily Tomlin

In case you were wondering

Of course it's alright for librarians to smell of drink.

Barbara Pym

Book lust?

Libraries are brothels for the mind, librarians are the madams, greeting customers, understanding their strange tastes and needs, and pimping books.

Guy Browning, The Guardian, October 18, 2003.

Expect nothing....

Live frugally on surprise.

Alice Walker