Orphan could no longer hear or see the shadows of the dead. He didn't think they had perished. Most likely they were hiding now, somewhere in this landscape of books.

Destiny is like a book. It needs manufacturing, the pulp process, the glue fixed tightly--and it requires a binding, to hold it together, lest it fall apart.

For one crazy moment he had the notion of a vanished tribe of librarians, lost in the deep underground caverns of the Bodleian, a wild and savage tribe that fed on unwary travellers.

Love every child without condition, listen with an open heart, get to know who they are, what they love, and follow more often than you lead.

Authority forgets a dying king

I make it a rule always to believe compliments implicitly for five minutes, and to simmer gently for twenty more.

We can only transform humanity and create a happier more compassionate world through education.

Some stalkers are quite benign, but finding someone in your garden at three o’clock in the morning with a meat cleaver and a hard-on can’t be much fun.

Religion acts as a moral gardener, to weed out, or suppress, evil tendencies, which, like weeds and nettles, would shoot up spontaneously in the wonderful compost of the garden, if unwatched.

Perfect Night is minimalistic and that's what makes it so forceful.

I tell you, Bono may have a point. South Africa needs a Walmart.

We cannot allow religious hooligans to place limiting points on thought.

When someone cares... it is easier to speak, it is easier to listen, it is easier to play, it is easier to work. When someone cares it is easier to laugh.