The librarian isn't a clerk who happens to work in a library. A librarian is a data hound, a guide, a sherpa and a teacher. The librarian is the interface between reams of data and the untrained but motivated user.

You can't fool all the people, not even most of the time. And people, once unfooled, talk about the experience.

It's more important that you be passionate about what you do all day than it is to be passionate about the product that is being sold.

I made a decision to write for my readers, not to try to find more readers for my writing.

I think art is the ability to change people with your work, to see things as they are and then create stories, images, and interactions that change the marketplace.

The job isn't to catch up to the status quo; the job is to invent the status quo.

Do your art. But don't wreck your art if it doesn't lend itself to paying the bills. That would be a tragedy.