“People often say that football and boxing are the ways out of the working class, and they are your ticket out of that kind of life, if you happen to want to leave it. But, for me, the library is the key. That is where the escape tunnel is. All of the knowledge in the world is there. The great brains of the world are at your fingertips”

– Billy Connolly

“In my world there would be as many public libraries as there are Starbucks”

– Henry Rollins