I wonder more and more just where I may have come out if I…

When I went away to college, I marveled at the wealth of bookstores around Harvard Square.

— John Updike

We are persons of quality, I assure you, and women of fashion, and come to see and to be seen.

— Ben Jonson

They come to see, they come that they themselves may be seen. [Lat., Spectatum veniunt, veniunt spectentur ut ipse.]

— Ovid

“Wow. Did I just write that? I didn't want who I am to come between us? How could I not have seen that?”

— Bill Konigsberg

My boyhood saw Greek islands floating over Harvard Square.

— Horace Gregory

When I was in grad school, my husband and I used to house sit for a couple in Harvard Square, so we have these…

— Laura van den Berg

“Harvard Square could feel like a party on a warm night, full of energy and privilege and promise. Or it could seem like one…

— Geraldine Brooks

I lived within walking distance of Harvard Square, and that's where I discovered my love of cinema. I saw a lot of foreign and…

— Rachel Morrison

The barn where I work, it's only 15 minutes or so from Harvard square, so It's very close to the center of Boston, but…

— Tod Machover

I took the T from Logan airport to Harvard Square. I hate driving in Boston. It's the traffic that drives me spare, and the…

— Geraldine Brooks

We discovered a person in Lagos who had a fish stall, and within a single square metre she carried two children all the way…

— Rem Koolhaas

It's important to make clear to all the schools at Harvard the central role of the library.

— Robert Darnton

While living in America when I attended Harvard in the early 1970s, I saw for myself the awesome, almost miraculous, power of a people…

— Benazir Bhutto

Today, at Harvard, any student with the currently fashionable color of skin is given rights denied to students of the currently unfashionable color.

— Al Capp

The Harvard Business Review recently had an article called 'The Human Moment,' about how to make real contact with a person at work: ...…

— Daniel Goleman