What the Postman Feared

"What Orwell feared were those who would ban books. What Huxley feared was that there would be no reason to ban a book, for there would be no one who wanted to read one."

Neil Postman, Amusing Ourselves to Death: Public Discourse in the Age of Show Business, (Penguin Books, 1986, 2005), p. xix.

AQQ: Great Art Dominates Life

"Minor art is a dream, indulged in because we can dominate it when we cannot dominate real life: great art is the domination of real life itself by our own understanding of it."

R. G. Collingwood, "Jane Austin," (1921) ; rpt. in The Philosophy of Enchantment, (2005), p. 26.

AQQ: What Libraries Do is a Secret!

"What libraries do, and what librarians can do, is the best kept secret in the world. It was probably some taxpayers who burnt the library at Alexandria."

—Socrates Ruggles