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

Ours is a culture and a time immensely rich in trash as it is in treasures.

Edgar Allen Poe really started me when I was 8. I fell in love with everything of his.

A library is all the university you will ever need.

With a book tucked in one hand, and a computer shoved under my elbow, I will march, not sidle, shudder or quake, into the twenty-first century.

Those women like to see their tongues dance.

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.