Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

LOVE IS NOMADICAND I'M A GYPSY SOULSO LOVE GOES WHEREVER I GO

Izzy. Sweet, beautiful, but eternally strange Izzy.

Calling people

...Our stories are drive by who we are and what we do, and not by the events that happens to us.

The good is the enemy of the best.

We need heart. We need a lot of things. But you have to have some basic ability. And sadly, she [Hillary Clinton] doesn't have that.

Being must be felt. It can't be thought.

Do something you're very passionate about, and don't try to chase what is kind of the "hot passion" of the day.

One of my highest priorities as an educator is to be as inclusive as possible.