I actually don't think of whiteness and heterosexuality as 'the norm'. Maybe there are people who still do but none of them are close friends of mine.

There is something so deeply visceral about libraries for me-rooms and rooms full of people dreaming and remembering.

Diversity is about all of us, and about us having to figure out how to walk through this world together.

But on paper, things can live forever. On paper, a butterfly never dies.

People are going to judge you all the time no matter what you do...Don't worry about other people. Worry about you.

I do believe that books can change lives and give people this kind of language they wouldn't have had otherwise.

I believe in one day and someday and this perfect moment called Now.

Even the silence has a story to tell you. Just listen. Listen.

The empty swing set reminds us of this-- that bad won't be bad forever, and what is good can sometimes last a long, long time.

I feel like the world stopped. And I got off...and then it started spinning again, but too fast for me to hop back on. I feel like I'm still trying to get a...to get some kind of foothold on living

In all your getting, get understanding.

It’s the uncertainty of being accepted that creates the drama in our lives.

There are no watertight compartments in our inmost nature.

The final act of business judgment is intuitive.

I would still give my left ball to write anything as good as OK Computer.

Don't limp in front of the lame.

My father went into the armed service and I never saw my mother - I don't know what happened to her.

Baptists never make love standing up. They're afraid someone might see them and think they're dancing.

Stupid man produces noise; clever man produces silence!

An established company which, in an age demanding innovation, is not able to innovation, is doomed to decline and extinction.

North and South were equally confident that God was on their side, and appealed incessantly to Him.