I have always imagined that paradise will be some kind of library. - Jorge Luis Borges, “Poems of the Gifts

In the nonstop tsunami of global information, librarians provide us with floaties and teach us how to swim. – Linton Weeks, Washington Post, 13 January 2001

Any technology distinguishable from magic is insufficiently advanced.

I think everyone should go to college and get a degree and then spend six months as a bartender and six months as a cabdriver. Then they would really be educated.

So now I don't have time to practice drums. It's been five years since I've touched the drums.

He lay face down, listening to the silence. He was perfectly alone. Nobody was watching. Nobody else was there. He was not perfectly sure that he was there himself.

For as spiritual as some people think my books are, I've never really dealt with religious things.

I don't believe in good people and bad people. I believe in the better parts of people.

Oh, he occasionally takes an alcoholiday.

If you go the way of your thoughts you will be carried away by them and you will find yourself in an endless maze.

You may not know, But it is absolutely true: With each heartbeat Your heart is calling: "God, God!" You may not hear it, But God Himself definitely hears Your heart's cry.

Gel doesn't work in my hair because it has a life of its own.