If we try to deny the darkness in our souls then we'll become completely dark.

So there you have it, a lifetime of first smelling the books, they all smell wonderful, reading the books, loving the books, and remembering the books.

I feel like I’ve been saving up a lot of things, and I don’t know what.

I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, it was during the Depression and we had no money. I couldn't go to college, so I went to the library three days a week for 10 years.

Digression is the soul of wit.

Maybe the books can get us half out of the cave. They just might stop us from making the same damm insane mistakes!

This is the emotional thing, you see - you must galvanize people, so they want to be completely alive and live forever, or the next thing to it. And out of that comes art, then, and survival through emotion.