Then what is the purpose of the Library?" Vale asked."To save books, " Irene said firmly.

And at that moment the alligators burst into the room.

Or possibly possessiveness was a characteristic of draconic affection. They were supposed to be hoarders, after all. Not so different from Librarians.

She remembered the conversation in the Library, as forgetting was the last thing a fully-trained Librarian should do. Memories were as important as books, and almost as important as proper indexing.

We are the Library, " Coppelia pointed out. "What we don't know, we research.

Nobody can really guarantee the future. The best we can do is size up the chances calculate the risks involved estimate our ability to deal with them and make our plans with confidence.

I don't like to do material people have heard. Now, they like to hear material that they know, because that's the stuff that made me famous, and, unfortunately, I don't do a ton of it.

As people of color, we're left out of history. History is sort of told around us. We're bystanders, we're passive, we're observers. We're never the center of our history.

There was a time when we wanted to be told what an electron is. The question was never answered. No familiar conceptions can be woven around the electron; it belongs to the waiting list.

Our fundamental relationship is soul-to-soul. As we become multi-sensory, we become aware of it.

All great art and literature is propaganda.

I am open-minded on all questions I care nothing about.

There’s a strange quality in stop-motion photography, like in King Kong, that adds to the fantasy. If you make things too real, sometimes you bring it down to the mundane.

Putting a family member in jail is a good sign there is something seriously wrong in the home.

Compare Scripture with Scripture. False doctrines, like false witnesses, agree not among themselves.