I don't believe in colleges and universities. I believe in libraries because most students don't have any money. When I graduated from high school, i… - Ray Bradbury

Who are your friends? Do they believe in you? Or do they stunt your growth with ridicule and disbelief? If the latter, you haven't friends. Go find some.

You must write every single day of your life... You must lurk in libraries and climb the stacks like ladders to sniff books like perfumes and wear books like hats upon your crazy heads... may you be in love every day for the next 20,000 days. And out of that love, remake a world.

When rivers flooded, when fire fell from the sky, what a fine place the library was, the many rooms, the books. With luck, no one found you. How could they! — when you were off to Tanganyika in '98, Cairo in 1812, Florence in 1492!?