It touched me to be trusted with something terrible.

When you handle books all day long, every new one is a friend and a temptation.

It was not the brutality of what occurred next that changed my mind and brought home to me the full meaning of fear. It was the brilliance of it.

As you know, human history is full of evil deeds, and maybe we ought to think of them with tears, not fascination.

Recently abandoned women can be complicated.

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

If there is any good in life, in history, in my own past, I invoke it now. I invoke it with all the passion with which I have lived.

It was good to walk into a library again it smelled like home.

... I grant you that anyone who pokes around in history long enough may well go mad.

To you, perceptive reader, I bequeath my history.

It is not knowledge, but the act of learning, not the possession of but the act of getting there, which grants the greatest enjoyment.

She would drink until the trembling stopped. Then she would wilt over the piano like one of Celia's spinaches when Tam Lin forgot to water the garden.

Don't be afraid of failure be afraid of petty success.

Life is only a dream, and we are the imagination of ourselves.

I haven't seen this many men dressed in women's clothing since my bachelor party

Priestley [said] that each discovery we make shows us many others that should be made.

Linux has definitely made a lot of sense even in a purely materialistic sense.

My job is to play well offensively and help my team score points. So I feel very responsible every time we lose a game.

It is necessary to be concerned about the importance of educating a really beautiful human spirit

God bless the USA, so large, so friendly, and so rich.