Intellectual and cultural freedom is the most important single precondition for the breakdown of the kinds of tyrannical and totalitarian systems that periodically threaten us.

Librarians are not just gatekeepers to knowledge, they are what the American Indians used to call their special sages who preserved the oral legends of a tribe: dream keepers.

At the root of everything lay the passionatedesire of thinking people to find a simple, unifying norm for society like the law of gravity that Newton had found for nature.

If we didn't already have libraries, they would now have to be invented. They are the keys to American success in fully exploiting the information superhighways of the future.

Accept things inf life and then start fighting. It is like knowing the armory skills of your opponent before beginning the battle.

It is an immense loss to have all robust and sustaining expletives refined away from one! At. moments of trial refinement is a feeble reed to lean upon.

Love is the energy from which all people and things are made. You are connected to everything in your world through love.

Adversity is a good school.

I'm really glad Westerns have had a revival. Hopefully our little resurgence will last a while.

Life is that which must overcome itself again and again

The New York Times made you or broke you.

Rule number one: Never make anyone uncomfortable in your home-even morons.

Where are people going? I wonder what they hope will happen and what they are afraid of? For me it's the same thing and has to do with being loved.

The real danger in life is not death, but living an evil life.