No person ever died that had a family.

Reading is at the center of our lives. The library is our brain. Without the library, you have no civilization.

I like to watch people. Sometimes I ride the subway all day and look at them and listen to them. I just want to figure out who they are and what they want and where they're going.

We cannot tell the precise moment when friendship is formed. As in filling a vessel drop by drop, there is at last a drop which makes it run over; so in a series of kindnesses there is at last one which makes the heart run over.

The first thing you learn in life is you're a fool. The last thing you learn in life is you're the same fool.

I discovered me in the library. I went to find me in the library.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.