The library is the biggest cracker box factory in the world. The more you eat, the more you want.

I don't see myself as a philosopher. That's awfully boring.

Action is hope. At the end of each day, when you've done your work, you lie there and think, Well, I'll be damned, I did this today. It doesn't matter how good it is, or how bad-you did it. At the end of the week you'll have a certain amount of accumulation. At the end of a year, you look back and say, I'll be damned, it's been a good year.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

The Internet is a big distraction. It's distracting, it's meaningless; it's not real. It's in the air somewhere.

I've grown up on a diet of metaphors. If young writers would find those writers who can give them metaphors by the bushel and the peck, then they'll become better writers - to learn how to capsualize things and present them in metaphorical form.

Fame and money are gifts given to us only after we have gifted the world with our best, our lonely, our individual truths.