I am providing a service that many people obviously value.

A degree of lying - you know, white lies - seems to be inherent in all languages and all forms of communication.

Many of you might already recognize me as the guy in the question-mark suits appearing in the late night TV commercials and on the cover of educational books and CDs.

No salesman can ever guarantee you a grant from any government or non-profit organization.

I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now.

Government workers often get a bad rap, but it's rare for them to receive much appreciation when government works.

Not offering this kind of guarantee means that they do not believe in their product enough, and they do not care about if a salesman is over promising or over selling their product.

Most every dental school has discount dental services.

A big part of finding the right resources is knowing what to look for and what to avoid.

What is also strange to me is that public libraries have always been in the forefront of opposing censorship.

There are thousands of grant programs and every program has different requirements and deadlines.

The trouble about God is that he is like a person who never acknowledges your letters and so in time you come to the conclusion either that he does not exist or that you have got his address wrong.

Money is a means of exchange.

When life gives you lemons, do NOT make lemonade. Lemonade is for losers. Make orange juice instead.

I consider poetry my vocation, not my "career." My career is as a university professor; that's what pays the bills.

You need to love yourself and be yourself one hundred percent before you can actually love someone else.

How comes it to pass, if they be only moved by chance and accident, that such regular mutations and generations should be begotten by a fortuitous concourse of atoms.

Wars don't happen on battlefields; they go on happening in people's hearts for generations and generations, and the ecological damage is unfathomably complex and dire.

Our assignment was to topple this prudish, judgmental civilization. And it worked.

As far back as I can remember though, I always loved performing.

As you begin to heal the inner you, you alter your immune system.