The one thing I would like more credit for is being part of a movement which involves recognising the importance of plot and asserting that books of literary worth could be written that had plots.

The prosecutor, who is supposed to carry the burden of proof, really is an author.

I cannot think of a day in my life when the library didn’t exert a potent attraction for me, offering a sense of the specialness of each individual’s curiosity and his or her quest to satisfy it.

Nobody ever gets what they want when it comes to love.

What kills a person at twenty-five? Leukemia. An accident. But George knows the better odds are that someone who passes at that age dies of unhappiness. Drug overdose. Suicide. Reckless behavior.

Widespread public access to knowledge, like public education, is one of the pillars of our democracy, a guarantee that we can maintain a well-informed citizenry.

I count myself as one of millions of Americans whose life simply would not be the same without the libraries that supported my learning.

Life is simply experience; for reasons not readily discerned, we attempt to go on.

The purpose of narrative is to present us with complexity and ambiguity.

'Torts' more or less means 'wrongs'...One of my friends said that Torts is the course which proves that your mother was right.

Who are we but the stories we tell about ourselves, particularly if we accept them?

The difference between punishment and discipline is a powerful child.

What is so real as the cry of a child?A rabbit's cry may be wilderBut it has no soul.

I want to get out of here means I want to be innocent.

Such a one do I remember, whom to look at was love.

Establish your mind as necessary for knowledge and remembrance. Establish a mind free of grasping to anything.

That energy which makes a child hard to manage is the energy which afterwards makes him a manager of life.

Let us watch against PRIDE in every shapepride of intellect, pride of wealth, pride in our own goodness.

You must embrace the man you hate, if you cannot be justified in knocking him down.

If you wait until you have to change, you may have waited too long.

This poem will never reach its destination. On Rousseau's Ode To Posterity