Don't tell me how to write my novel. Don't tell me you've got a better ending for it. I have no time for that. - Ray Bradbury

Every time you take a step, even when you don't want to. . . . When it hurts, when it means you rub chins with death, or even if it means dying, that's good. Anything that moves ahead, wins. No chess game was ever won by the player who sat for a lifetime thinking over his next move.

God, how we get our fingers in each other's clay. That's friendship, each playing the potter to see what shapes we can make of each other.

Oh God, without them [libraries], what have we? We have no past and we have no future.