Librarians are more important than ever before ... are uniquely qualified to help all of us separate the digital wheat from the chaff, to help us understand the reliability of the data we encounter.

Our bodies like rhythm and our brains like melody and harmony.

A bowl of pudding only has taste when I put it in my mouth - when it is in contact with my tongue. It doesn't have taste or flavor sitting in my fridge, only the potential.

The constant nagging in your mind of undone things pulls you out of the present--tethers you to a mind-set of the future so that you're never fully in the moment and enjoying what's now.

The most fundamental principle of the organized mind, the one most critical to keeping us from forgetting or losing things, is to shift the burden of organizing from our brains to the external world.

The first forms of writing emerged not for art, literature, or love, not for spiritual or liturgical purposes, but for business--all literature could be said to originate from sales receipts (sorry).

No other species lives with regret over past events, or makes deliberate plans for future ones.

Another possibility is that evolution selected creativity in general as a marker of sexual fitness.

What makes a set of lines and colors into art is the relationship between this line and that one; the way one color or form echoes another in a different part of the canvas.

The amount of scientific information we've discovered in the last twenty years is more than all the discoveries up to that point, from the beginning of language.

The processing capacity of the conscious mind has been estimated at 120 bits per second.

And suddenly, the earth was an alien place, and she a voyager without sure destination.

There are no greater or lesser arts, only greater or lesser artists.

Life is the best teacher.

Writing is the rock on which everything is built.

Knowledge of the world means dissolving the solidity of the world.

I’m quite hyper, and my wife would prefer it if I sat down and read a book.

I'd worked with Marlon [Brando] a couple of times, and he was a practical joker. He was far more interested in getting jokes out than getting the words out. We laughed all the time.

The world exists for the sake of kindness.

This life is temporary, this body is temporary, but while I'm here I want to get as much out of it as I can

Pard, we will meet again in the Happy Hunting Ground To part no more, Goodbye