You don't organize metaphors . . . you explode them.

To everything there is a season. Yes. A time to break down, and a time to build up. Yes. A time to keep silence and a time to speak. Yes.

It's not going to do any good to land on Mars if we're stupid.

What do you do, go around trying everything once?' he asked. 'Sometimes twice.

Out of the nursery into the college and back into the nursery; there’s your intellectual pattern for the past five centuries or more.

But with the library, it's like catnip, I suppose: you begin to run in circles because there's so much to look at and read.

We are the witnesses to the miracle. We are put here by creation, by God....We're here to be the audience to the magnificent. It is our job to celebrate.