Art should be a place of hope.

He was a clot looking for a place to happen, a splinter of bone hunting a soft organ to puncture, a lonely lunatic cell looking for a mate - they would set up housekeeping and raise themselves a cozy little malignant tumor.

A hurt body and mind aren't just like a dictatorship; they are a dictatorship. There is no tyrant as merciless as pain, no despot so cruel as confusion.

They had discovered one could grow as hungry for light as for food.

...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.

If being a kid is about learning how to live, then being a grown-up is about learning how to die.

Want to know the best thing about teaching? Seeing that moment when a kid discovers his or her gift. There's no feeling on earth like it.