The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

For the writer, there is nothing quite like having someone say that he or she understands, that you have reached them and affected them with what you have written.

Libraries never let us forget who we are, for their worth stands by the knowledge they keep and save for us.

The past moves me and with me, although I remove myself from it. Its light often shines on this night traveler: and when it does, I scribble it down. Whatever pleasure is in it I need pass on. That's happiness. That is who I am.

The meaning of the Street in all ways and at all times is the need for sharing life with others and the search for community.

The books from which [children] learn must reflect movement and change and all of the infinite possibilities of minds at liberty.

To leave a place, you'd best leave everything behind; all your possessions, including memory. Traveling's not as easy as it's made out to be.