If life's lessons could be reduced to single sentences, ther would be no need for fiction.

I have a hard time isolating what it is in myself that makes me so fascinated with the theme of identity, because I came from a normal upper middle-class family. And yet, as I look back at my books, the uses of power, issues of identity, they have - it's recurrent. It happens again and again.

Libraries function as crucial technology hubs, not merely for free Web access, but for those who need computer training and assistance. Library business centers help support entrepreneurship and retraining.

On the streets, unrequited love and death go together almost as often as in Shakespeare.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

Basbanes makes you love books.

The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.