Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind.

If you're going to immerse yourself in a project for three years, why not stake out a chunk of the world that is completely alien to you and go traveling?

All we can ever do is lay a word in the hands of those who have put one in ours.

Until I was 42, I could fit everything that I owned into two suitcases.

The web: yet another total disorientation that becomes status quo without anyone realizing it.

The loneliness of writing is that you baffle your friends and change the lives of strangers.

Reading is the last act of secular prayer.