Quote by Avi Steinberg

“Fuck it, I thought. As Don Rumsfeld once said, "You go to war with the army you have, not the army you wish you…

— Avi Steinberg

“For days I kept imagining the fate of the world's misplaced letters. I started noticing them everywhere. All the right letters sitting on desks…

— Avi Steinberg

“I think you’re more an archivist than a librarian,” he said. He told me that archivists and librarians were opposite personas. True librarians are…

— Avi Steinberg

“I flipped to the author’s photo in the Library of America edition of O’Connor’s collected works, and forked it over. Solitary examined the photo.…

— Avi Steinberg

“Yet for quixotic reasons--namely, that I enjoyed writing obits--I had decided to scale back on articles about city life in order to write exclusively…

— Avi Steinberg

“I don't need no Smith and Wesson, man, I got Merriam and Webster.”

— Avi Steinberg

“An officer on an elevator in the Tower once told me he was proud of his job keeping bad guys out of society. "Someone's…

— Avi Steinberg

“Pimps make the best librarians. Psycho killers, the worst. Ditto con men. Gangsters, gunrunners, bank robbers- adept at crowd control, at collaborating with a…

— Avi Steinberg

“All across America public libraries were, and are, being shut down, while prisons-with libraries-were, and are, being built. This has been a choice the…

— Avi Steinberg

“Pimps make the best librarians.”

— Avi Steinberg

“Harvard was a lovely assisted-living facility from which I'd emerged, like my classmates, stupider and more confident.”

— Avi Steinberg

“His elegant librarianship ... made me appreciate how order is created: Not through grand schemes - to which I was often drawn - but…

— Avi Steinberg