A collection of good books, with a soul to it in the shape of a librarian, becomes a vitalized power among the impulses by which the world goes on to improvement.

The past will be your teacher if you learn from it

These are days you'll remember. If you recall nothing else from your graduation ceremony, remember you heard the New Jersey Governor quote from 10,000 Maniacs.

Death haunts everyone and never fails.

It is ridiculous that I have so many shoes I don't wear. I worry that they're sitting there, being sad.

The fiction I tend to like is nothing like my own work. I like the kind of writing that shows me things I don't know about, and what I don't know about is the everyday, normal world.

I was told over and over the poetry in forms was "conservative" but there was no analysis of why this was so.

Tis Vanth's cage. You can just move it out of the way." "I already have," he grumbles. "With my shin.

Rather than someone that i can't take my eyes off, I want to find someone that I can't take my heart off

It is by speech that many of our best gains are made. A large part of the good we receive comes to us in conversation.