“Libraries raised me. I don’t believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don’t have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn’t go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.”

— Ray Bradbury (via mrgan) (via annieisms)

I grew up in my town’s library. As a boy I would literally cut school to go to the library. When I was nine my family bought a second set of encyclopedias because I’d finished the first one.

I am grateful to live in an age with such abundance of available knowledge.