The point of a library's existence is not persuasion or evangelism, but knowledge. It is irrelevant to the good library whether, as an institution, it shares or promotes your core values or mine, or the Attorney General's or Saddam Hussein's. The library is always an instrument of choice, and the choice is always yours, not your elected or designated leaders.

Modernism is the protein of our cultural imagination.

If you want to be successful in the gym, in the classroom, in college or when you get out and go into the world of work, that is going to be determined by how hard you are willing to work.

Confidence is the prize given to the mediocre

Why wait for a call when you have a command?

The greater the artist, the greater the doubt; perfect confidence is granted to the less talented as a consolation prize.

Nothing they design ever gets in the way of a work of art