None of you understand. I'm not locked up in here with YOU. You're locked up in here with ME.

Authority, when first detecting chaos at its heels, will entertain the vilest schemes to save its orderly facade.

There are people. There are stories. The people think they shape the stories, but the reverse if often closer to the truth. Stories shape the world. They exist independently of people, and in places quite devoid of man, there may yet be mythologies.

I wouldn’t be the person I am today if it wasn’t for the opportunities the library gave me.

Life is a lot more interesting if you are interested in the people and the places around you. So, illuminate your little patch of ground, the people that you know, the things that you want to commemorate. Light them up with your art, with your music, with your writing, with whatever it is that you do.

Growing up in the Boroughs, I thought I must be the cleverest boy in the world, an illusion that I was able to maintain until I got to the grammar school.

The multiplying villainies of nature do swarm upon him... [from Macbeth]