Work is about a search for daily meaning as well as daily bread, for recognition as well as cash, for astonishment rather than torpor; in short, for a sort of life rather than a Monday through Friday sort of dying.

Most of us, like the assembly line worker, have jobs that are too small for our spirit. Jobs are not big enough for people.

All the other books ask, 'What's it like?' What was World War II like for the young kid at Normandy, or what is work like for a woman having a job for the first time in her life? What's it like to be black or white?

In order for us, black and white, to disenthrall ourselves from the harshest slavemaster, racism, we must disinter our buried history.... We are all the Pilgrim, setting out on this journey.

All you need in life is truth and beauty and you can find both at the Public Library.

If there is knowledge, it lies in the fusion of the book and the street.

People are hungry for stories. It's part of our very being.