If all you leave in the library is books that you think speak to everyone, what are you going to have? You'd have nothing.

If no one speaks out for [young readers], if they don’t speak out for themselves, all they’ll get for required reading will be the most bland books available. Instead of finding the information they need at the library, instead of finding novels that illuminate life, they will find only those materials to which nobody could possibly object... In this age of censorship I mourn the loss of books that will never be written, I mourn the voices that will be silenced — writers’ voices, teachers’ voices, students’ voices — and all because of fear.

I love movies, and theater, and kayaking, reading, biking, walking - oh, and dancing. I love to dance!

I fell in love with books at the Elizabeth Public Library when I was four.

I never read a horse book in my life. But I thought that's what my friends were reading and that's what I should be reading. And this was "Dobbin Does This" and "Dobbin Does That."

She wondered if all the firsts in her life would go by so quickly, and be forgotten just as quickly.

I think we made out [sexuality changing]. I think that's really great, and we didn't jump into intercourse. And there were no blow jobs.