It really wasn't until I was in college when I began to write more and more, and I realized I was scheduling my entire life around my writing

Can it be that even as one grows to fit the space one lives in, one cannot grow until there's space to grow?

I change jobs like drinking water ... And as I grow accustomed to the new flavor of a drink I regard as delicious, yes, vital, something fades, life balks. So I break camp; I shed skins.

Libraries are where it all begins.

The American Dream is a phrase we'll have to wrestle with all of our lives. It means a lot of things to different people. I think we're redefining it now

The library is an arena of possibility, opening both a window into the soul and a door onto the world.

The First Book: Go ahead, it won't bite. Well... maybe a little. More a nip, like. A tingle. It's pleasurable, really. You see, it keeps on opening. You may fall in. Sure, it's hard to get started; remember learning to use knife and fork? Dig in: you'll never reach bottom. It's not like it's the end of the world -- just the world as you think you know it.