A library, no matter how big or small, is a careful balance of love and responsibility. A machine, if you will, cranked by those who care most about reading.

The power of the people and the power of reason are one.

In any art, you don't know in advance what you want to say - it's revealed to you as you say it. That's the difference between art and illustration.

We call them faerie. We don't believe in them. Our loss.

The only thing that can be safely predicted is that sometime soon your organization will be challenged to change in ways for which it has no precedent.

Everything goes, everything is lost, eventually. But if something is good, it doesn't matter what happens. The ending is still happy.

I was a working-class macho guy who was used to being served and Yoko didn't buy that. From the day I met her, she demanded equal time, equal space, equal rights.

I have a chest full of all the insults, villainies, and infamies a man is capable of withstanding. . . . If you become famous, you will have to go through that.

Being other than normal is a perilous advantage.

I have come to know a God of compassion and mercy and love.

If somebody tells you you have ears like a donkey, pay no attention. But if two people tell you, buy yourself a saddle.