If you dare nothing, then when the day is over, nothing is all you will have gained.

The view changes from where you are standing. Words can wound, and wounds can heal. All of these things are true.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.

People take on the shapes of the songs and the stories that surround them, especially if they don't have their own song.

It has occasionally been remarked upon that it is as easy to overlook something large and obvious as it is to overlook something small and niggling, and that the large things one overlooks often cause problems.

Books were safer than other people anyway.

Loyalty was a great thing, but no lieutenants should be forced to choose between their leader and a circus with elephants.