He was painfully shy, which, as is often the manner of the painfully shy, he overcompensated for by being too loud at the wrong times.

A library is a place that is a repository of information and gives every citizen equal access to it.

I want to write a play. I'd like to do an original musical. I should probably put together a poetry collection.

Some people have great ideas maybe once or twice in their life, and then they discover electricity or fire or outer space or something. I mean, the kind of brilliant ideas that change the whole world. Some people never have them at all... I get them two or three times a week.

Read the books you love, tell people about authors you like, and don’t worry about it.

The cat dropped the rat between its two front paws. "There are those," it said with a sigh, in tones as smooth as oiled silk, "who have suggested that the tendency of a cat to play with its prey is a merciful one - after all, it permits the occasional funny little running snack to escape, from time to time. How often does your dinner get to escape?

Virginia is the place, where, technologically speaking, they will burn people at the stake for possessing such things as toasters.