For me, literacy means freedom. For the individual and for society.

I think reading is part of the birthright of the human being

I fly my geek flag proudly. Absolutely.

As long as we are engaged in storytelling that moves the culture forward, it doesn't matter what format it is.

I'm enormously proud of the fact that Star Trek has really not just sparked an interest, but encouraged, a few generations of people to go into the sciences.

I get most of my news updates from electronic and social media.

In a society that functions optimally, those who can should naturally want to provide for those who can't. That's how it's designed to work. I truly believe we're here to take care of one another.

Maturity is a series of shattered illusions.

Libraries do one thing that no other institution does and that's provide access to all.

Reading a hard copy book, and reading a book on an iPad are slightly different experiences. What they both have in common though is that you must engage your imagination in the process.

If we marry educational technology with quality, enriching content, that's a circle of win.

The practice of forgiving is a sequential practice that begins with excusing someone.

No art can possibly comfort HER then, even though art is credited with so many things, especially an ability to offer solace. Sometimes, of course, art creates the suffering in the first place.

Those who find beautiful meanings in beautiful things are the cultivated. For these there is hope.

People are not as one-dimensional as the stories about them.

Poverty, ignorance and degradation are the combined evils, these constitute the social disease of the free colored people of the US.

People have an idea that one is in control of a career, a lot more than you really are. You can engineer things to an extent. But you are at the mercy of what comes in across the desk.

In your twenties, everything makes you crazy.

Art is rarely intelligible to the criminal classes.

Music and art and poetry attune the soul to God.

If you interact with things in your life, everything is constantly changing. And if nothing changes, you're an idiot.