If it is noticed that much of my outside work concerns itelf with libraries, there is an extremely good reason for this. I think that the better part of my education, almost as important as that secured in the schools and the universities, came from libraries.

An artist would not rise above the mediocrity if he condemns it.

You cannot be the good all the time — sometimes it is necessary to get angry. [Vincent Van Gogh]

Religion will never show the way.

No artist is normal. Who happen to be normal cannot be an artist.

Misery is the only thing in the world that has no end or edge.

After all, the world is still great.