Alexis Berman

“Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.”
― Richard Powers

“She was brilliant and joyous and she believed- probably correctly- that libraries contain the answers to all things, to everything, and that if you can't find the information you seek in the library, then such information probably doesn't exist in this or any parallel universe now or ever to be known. She was thoughtful and kind and she always believed the best of everybody. She was, above all else, a master librarian and she knew where to find any book on any subject in the shortest possible time.

And she was wonderfully unhinged.”
― Gary Paulsen, Mudshark

“Google can bring you back 100,000 answers. A librarian can bring you back the right one.”
― Neil Gaiman

“We must be willing to let go of the life we planned so as to have the life that is waiting for us.”
― Joseph Campbell