“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.”

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.

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 believe that the general growth in large [financial] institutions have occurred in the context of an underlying structure of markets in which many of the larger risks are dramatically — I should say, fully — hedged.

I, and many others, do not find any credible evidence that those structures represent protofeathers.

Hollywood is a strange place. The class structure here is more rigid than almost anyplace I’ve ever experienced. It’s made more difficult by the fact that it’s constantly changing.

I feel completely alone – it’s like melting, I am the structure, and I am also Alain Robert.

At the heart of every frustration lies a basic structure: the collision of a wish with an unyielding reality.

We’ve got to establish a socialistic economic structure that will limit private, profit-oriented businesses.

All official institutions of language are repeating machines: school, sports, advertising, popular songs, news, all continually repeat the same structure, the same meaning, often the same words: the stereotype is a political fact, the major figure of ideology.

But the whole point of liberation is that you get out. Restructure your life. Act by yourself.