There is more than one way to burn a book. And the world is full of people running about with lit matches.

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

I don't tell anyone how to write and no one tells me.

Teachers are to inspire; librarians are to fulfill.

Like every beginner, I have thought you could beat, pummel and thrash an idea into existence. Under such treatment, of course, any decent idea folds up its paws, turns on its back, fixes its eyes on eternity, and dies.

I have two rules in life - to hell with it, whatever it is, and get your work done.

Why live? Life was its own answer. Life was the propagation of more life and the living of as good a life as possible.