Television is very dangerous. Because it repeats and repeats and repeats our disasters, instead of our triumphs.

A single face turned upward toward all Time One flesh, one ecstasy, one peace.

I am a librarian. I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library. Before I fell in love with libraries, I was just a six-year-old boy. The library fueled all of my curiosities, from dinosaurs to ancient Egypt. When I graduated from high school in 1938, I began going to the library three nights a week. I did this every week for almost ten years and finally, in 1947, around the time I got married, I figured I was done. So I graduated from the library when I was twenty-seven. I discovered that the library is the real school.

The world, like a great iris of an even more gigantic eye, which has also just opened and stretched out to encompass everything, stared back at him.

Forget them. Burn all, burn everything. Fire is bright and fire is clean.

The real fear isn't rejection, but that there won't be enough time in your life to write all the stories that you have in you.

There's no use going to school unless your final destination is the library.