The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

If you're 50 years old or younger, give every book about 50 pages before you decide to commit yourself to reading it, or give it up. If you're over 50, which is when time gets shorter, subtract your age from 100 - the result is the number of pages you should read before deciding whether or not to quit. If you're 100 or over you get to judge the book by its cover, despite the dangers in doing so.

I have for a long time felt that our society is becoming more and more fractured and divisive and that you could go a whole day without really talking to another person. If you give people a good book to talk about, you can build a community out of a diverse group. A common language grows out of it.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.