Love isn't soft, like the poets say. Love has teeth which bite and the wounds never close.

I think that marijuana should not only be legal, I think it should be a cottage industry. It would be wonderful for the state of Maine. There's some pretty good homegrown dope. I'm sure it would be even better if you could grow it with fertilizers and have greenhouses.

Relief loosens tongues beyond measure.

It's funny how close the past is, sometimes. Sometimes it seems as if you could almost reach out and touch it. Only who really wants to?

I believe most people are essentially good. I know that I am. It's you I'm not entirely sure of.

...knowing that to be a librarian was to come as close as any human being can to sitting in the peak-seat of eternity's engine.

there are lots of would-be censors out there, and although they may have different agendas, they all want basically the same thing: for you to see the world they see...or to at least shut up about what you do see that's different. they are agents of the status quo. not necessarily bad guys, but dangerous guys if you happen to believe in intellectual freedom.