The library is a place of mental diversion, learning, and comfort for anyone who has an intellect. I know of no librarian who when asked for food for the mind will offer a stone. What more could anyone ask?

Robert Jordan... is a lot of writer

When you steal from the library, you are preventing anyone else from reading that book, and the very notion makes me want to drop you in the Void.

That most dangerous of opponents: the one who took pains to comprehend the position of his adversary.

Douglas Adams' Hitchhiker series also shows the potential of lighter fantastic fiction. I read the first, and listened to a tape of a later one, and it's fun.

Bink knew the dolphin only from old pictures; it was a kind of magic fish that breathed air instead of water.

Every person professes to love good and hate evil, but in his actions his real preferences emerges.