You can make yourself happy or miserable - it's the same amount of effort.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Time was a film run backward. Suns fled and ten million moons fled after them.

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.

I think we're doing a dreadful job of educating.

You've got to jump off cliffs and build your wings on the way down.

You've got to be able to look at your thoughts on paper and discover what a fool you were.