It's not the sentiments of men which make history but their actions.

In my day the library was a wonderful place.... We didn't have visual aids and didn't have various programs...it was a sanctuary.... So I tend to think the library should remain a center of knowledge.

No heart is so hard as the timid heart.

Every one of my books had killed me a little more.

What characterizes a member of a minority group is that he is forced to see himself as both exceptional and insignificant, marvelous and awful, good and evil.

Giving a camera to Diane Arbus is like putting a live grenade in the hands of a child.

The desire for success lubricates secret prostitution in the soul.