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.

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

A life touched by the Holy Spirit will tolerate sin no longer.

At what point in life should we stop searching for a better one?

As a college student, what really interested me was the human brain and human intelligence.

When I do get to chow down on a book, I try to read ones that are nothing like what I'm writing. So, as I'm currently working on a space opera (of sorts) I'm mostly indulging in urban fantasy.

Black people have always been America's wilderness in search of a promised land.

I know a little bit about a great many things and not enough about any one to make a living in these times.

I definitely have a firm, fixed idea of what compromise is for me.

I carry from my mother's womb a fanatic's heart.

A Corpse or a Ghost- I'd sooner be one or t'other, square and fair, than a Ghost in a Corpse, which is my feelins at present.

Fishing, Danny boy, is purely a state of mind. Some men, when they are fishing, are after fish. Me, I'm after things you could never set a barbed hook in.