Rube Goldberg Quotes

I saved everything, all my gear over the years: my trench coats and stuff that I have saved. It is all packed away nicely and neatly in vacuum-sealed bags and all that stuff.

What's an archive, son? Is that anything like a closet?

I think that, ultimately, there are so many characters in G.I. Joe that even all the iterations - the comics and the different cartoons and everything - have been a big ensemble. Lots of crossing storylines and stuff.

My library is an archive of longings.

A library is infinity under a roof.

We all love to hear a good story. We save our stories in books. We save our books in libraries. Libraries are the storyhouses full of all those stories and secrets.

Clutter in its highest and most organized form is called collecting.

I work at a record label where I have archives. These things [memorabilia] occurred and are important to somebody, and they're important to me. I find the record industry largely repellent. This music, the Teen Idles, all of that stuff, is important to me. I don't have lawyers, an agent or a manager. However I find the music industry largely repellent. I just make records because that's what I love to do. So I think that era, those pieces of media, I keep in my collection.

I'm not a builder of buildings, I'm a builder of collections.

I must say I find television very educational. The minute somebody turns it on, I go to the library and read a good book.

A library is thought in cold storage.

There are plenty of people out there talking about how difficult it is for some of us to just deal with all the stuff we already have, from packed closets that need organizers to storage spaces to maintenance costs, etc. Lots of people are reevaluating whether or not they need giant garages full of stuff and finding that they don't.

I could listen to the radio and I had access to books from time to time. Not all the time.

If you've had something for more than six months, and it's still not repaired, it's clutter.

I love my books.

I owe a lot to Nickelodeon.

The most inspiring objects are books. I have about 5,000 volumes in my home library. It's an unending source of visuals and ideas.

The more storage you have, the more stuff you accumulate.

Drawings don't have a point. Cartoons, you want to have an opinion; you want them to express a viewpoint.

I save everything. I have these carefully organized file boxes. Somewhere in there is a section of the 'New York Times' where I wrote 'The Border Guard' in the margin.

I do not exactly remember at what period I started my museum which absorbed so much of my time.

I use my awards as doorstops. Others are in the office or in little cubbyholes in our library - they go between the books, because they actually look like arty pieces.

I don t think cartoons are only for kids, but I think kids will love anything as long as it's visually interesting.

What is more important in a library than anything else - than everything else - is the fact that it exists.

The bedroom in my apartment is far too small to hold a nightstand. There is, however, this bookshelf. Yes, I stow whatever I'm reading on the lower shelf, but more importantly, it's where I keep a collection of ghost books.