I've learned that I still have a lot to learn.

When someone shows you who they are, believe them the first time.

Reduce your humanity through what Jules Feiffer called little murders. The minute I hear someone trying to demean me, I know that that person means to have my life. And I will not give it to them. When a person commits these little murders, and then you catch him or her at it, he or she might say, "Oh, I didn't mean it." But make no mistake: It is an assassination attempt.

[Librarians] study their field with as much determination and as much delight as open-heart surgeons.

You only are free when you realize you belong no place - you belong every place - no place at all. The price is high. The reward is great.

I respect myself and insist upon it from everybody. And because I do it, I then respect everybody, too.

Let choice whisper in your ear and love murmur in your heart. Be ready. Here comes life.