Simply adored Timothy Schaffert's The Coffins of Little Hope: the voice of Essie, the narrator, is terrific & the last line blew me away.

The role of a librarian is to make sense of the world of information. If that's not a qualification for superhero-dom, what is?

Whenever I begin reading a new book, I am embarking on a new, uncharted journey with an unmarked destination. I never know where a particular book will take me, toward what other books I will be led.

No one should ever finish a book they're not enjoying, no matter how popular or well reviewed the book is.

I just said, 'Well, the real people performing miracles every day are librarians,' and we all laughed ourselves off our chairs.

Truth will keep on telling the truthLies will lie to be more uncouthNo more rainbow after the stormNowhere to escape leaving the norm

Words are life. They can tear down or build up, so use them wisely.

Life goes on is a redundancy. Life is defined by its going on.

Too often when conscience tries to speak the line seems to be busy.

Why should poetry have to make sense?

Whether a man is guilty or innocent, we have to find that out by due process of law.

Does anyone know where the Best Men are? I hope they're not in the parking lot stealing our hubcaps.

I don't think there is much American music.

If a well-constituted individual refrains from blazoning aught amiss or calamitous in his family, a nation in the like circumstance may without reproach be equally discreet.

Sometimes you have to be less ashamed about writing a bad poem than you would be about being silent.