Muß es sein? Es muß sein!

Tim Walker

The title page of first edition of Anna Karenina

"I cannot sleep unless I am surrounded by books."

— Jorge Luis Borges

"The book is like the wheel - once invented, it cannot be bettered."

— Umberto Eco

"A library is infinity under a roof."

— Gail Carson Levine

New York Public Library

"I became interested in people. I realized all the books I loved, I loved because I was made to care and worry about people in those books."

— David Mitchell