You know how is it when you love someone? And the hard part, the bad part, the Jerry Springer Show part is that you never stop loving someone. There's always a piece of them in your heart.

If you do not value libraries then you do not value information or culture or wisdom. You are silencing the voices of the past and you are damaging the future.

It’s part of growing up, I suppose…you always have to leave something behind you.

When I was young I was a fool. So wrap me up in dreams and death.

Religions are, by definition, metaphors, after all: God is a dream, a hope, a woman, an ironist, a father, a city, a house of many rooms, a watchmaker who left his prize chronometer in the desert, someone who loves you - even, perhaps, against all evidence, a celestial being whose only interest is to make sure your football team, army, business, or marriage thrives, prospers, and triumphs over all opposition.

Too much talking these days. Talk talk talk. This country would get along much better if people learned how to suffer in silence.

Nobody's American," said Wednesday. "Not originally. That's my point.