A beginning is the end of something, always.

honesty is hard work.

If a person who indulges in gluttony is a glutton, and a person who commits a felony is a felon, then God is an iron.

Pain shared is pain lessened; joy shared is joy increased. Thus do we refute entropy.

Mankind is divided into two basic sorts: those who find the unknown future threatening ... and those who find it thrilling. The rupture between those two sides has been responsible for most of the bloodshed in history.

Librarians are the secret masters of the world. They control information. Don't ever piss one off.

In 1971, after seven years in college, with that magic piece of paper clutched triumphantly in my fist, the best job I was able to get was night watchman on a sewer project in Babylon, N.Y. guarding a hole in the ground to prevent anyone from stealing it. God bless the American educational system!