Without our stories we are incomplete.

It was not that he was feckless$$$ more that he had simply not been around the day they handed out feck.

If Hell is other people... then Purgatory is airports.

You hurt. It's okay. I hurt too. Hold my hand.

Libraries are the thin red line between civilization and barbarism.

Writers - we're much more comfortable at parties standing in the corner watching everybody else having a good time than we are mingling.

Being brave didn't mean you weren't scared. Being brave meant you were scared$$$ really scared$$$ badly scared$$$ and you did the right thing anyway.

Ideas are more difficult to kill than people$$$ but they can be killed$$$ in the end.

People talk about books that write themselves$$$ and it's a lie. Books don't write themselves. It takes thought and research and backache and notes and more time and more work than you'd believe.

I see libraries and librarians as frontline soldiers in the war against illiteracy and the lack of imagination.