One definition of eternity is that we are not alone on this planet, that there are those who've gone before and those who will come, and that there is a community of spirits.

Libraries are where it all begins.

Courage has nothing to do with our determination to be great. It has to do with what we decide in that moment when we are called upon to be more.

The poetry that sustains me is when I feel that, for a minute, the clouds have parted and I've seen ecstasy or something

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

If you can't be free, be a mystery.

I didn't know writers could be real live people, because I never knew any writers.