It is sometimes a mistake to climb; it is always a mistake never even to make the attempt.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

You wouldn't die in here, nothing ever dies in here, but if you stayed here for too long, after a while just a little of you would exist everywhere, all spread out. And that's not a good thing. Never enough of you all together in one place, so t here wouldn't be anything left that would think of itself as an 'I.' No point of view any longer, because you'd be an infinite sequence of views and of points.

Chicago happened slowly, like a migraine. First they were driving through countryside, then, imperceptibly, the occasional town became a low suburban sprawl, and the sprawl became the city.

If you, as a parent, raise your children well, they won't need you anymore. If you did it properly, they go away.

Use your blog to connect. Use it as you. Don’t ‘network’ or ‘promote.’ Just talk.

He had gone beyond the world of metaphor and simile into the place of things that are, and it was changing him.