If you hide your ignorance, no one will hit you and you'll never learn.

Do you ever wonder if--well, if there are people living on the third planet?' 'The third planet is incapable of supporting life,' stated the husband patiently. 'Our scientists have said there's far too much oxygen in their atmosphere.

Without the library, you have no civilization.

I'll be damned if death wears my sadness for glad rags.

Recreate the world in your own image and make it better for your having been here.

Men throw huge shadows on the lawn, don't they? Then, all their lives, they try to run to fit the shadows. But the shadows are always longer.

I am madness maddened when it comes to books, writers, and the great granary silos where their wits are stored.