I hope people of the future will remember my books for being burned, and I challenge an elite few to imagine the embers of the last copy.

When someone gives me either a democratic or republican pamphlet, I throw it in their face. I’m a librarian, damn it! We only take book donations.

I love the smell of a new book, but I prefer inhaling fresh bottles of ink and glue. They get me more lightheaded – unless I read the book.

I study men like I study books: I skim their midsections.