A university is a reading and discussion club. If students knew how to use the library, they wouldn't need the rest of the buildings. The faculty's job, in great part, is to teach students how to use a library in a living way. All a student should really need is access to the library and a place to sleep.
John CiardiEvery parent is at some time the father of the unreturned prodigal, with nothing to do but keep his house open to hope.
John CiardiA savage is simply a human organism that has not received enough news from the human race.
John CiardiI'm smiled out, talked out, quipped out, socialized so far from any being, I need the weight of mortal silences to get realized back into myself.
John Ciardi