“In the library I discovered that you could learn by following your nose. And I learned that a book was as close to a living thing as you could get without being one.”

We understand ourselves through stories, by making stories out of our lives. Storytellers give people structure with which they can begin to look at their own lives and try to make sense of them.

Every child needs a safe place to fall – a place where he or she can explore things without worrying about failure and judgment.

Once a kid learns a library is hers, to use as she wants, the world opens up., I’ve seen it happen. It happened to me.

I understand now, in a way I never did before, the colossal scale of the world. I found patience and fortitude that I didn’t know I had. I discovered an America that millions of people scarcely know exists. I made a friend. I came home.

I dislike religion quite intensely. It’s been the cause of all the grief in the world ever since they discovered the first stone to worship.

Truth has no finality to it. It is not something to be held on to. Truth is discovered minute to minute or not at all.

I really discovered the almost transcending power of music. And I think that is why I am so into it.

The man who never tells an unpalatable truth ‘at the wrong time’ (the right time has yet to be discovered) is the man whose success in life is fairly well assured.

In life we only try to produce, to win, and enjoy the more we can; in science, to discoverand invent the more we can; in religion, to dominate (or rule over) on the greatest number of people we can; whereas the forming of the character.

did not leave us with the proofs of the theorems he discovered.

Yet the abyss is not not infinite; its bottom may suddenly be discovered within the confines of a human heart or under the debris of might doubts.