Libraries are what is best about us as a society: open, exciting, rich, informative, free, inclusive, engaging.

I wish I had coined the phrase 'tyranny of choice,' but someone beat me to it. The counterintuitive truth is that have an abundance of options does not make you feel privileged and indulged; too many options make you feel like all of them are wrong, and that you are wrong if you choose any of them.

I feel somewhat responsible for the Borders Books bankruptcy.

Keeping animals, I have learned, is all about water. Who even knew chickens drank water? I didn't, but they do, and a lot.

I can imagine a future in which real books will exist but in a more limited, particular way.

I think part of a hero construct is overcoming loss, or being abandoned, or having to make your own way in the world.

Most fourth graders can't say why Abraham Lincoln is an important historical figure? Wow. This is far more distressing than if the news had been that fourth graders were bad at reciting multiplication tables, because you can, in fact, Google that.