There's a magical part of it (writing obituaries), too, which is you're trying to breathe life back into someone who has just died. You're trying to conjure them up.

The vast waterfall of history pours down, and a few obituarists fill teacups with the stories.

In tough times, a librarian is a terrible thing to waste.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them!

Librarians consider free access to information the foundation of democracy.

We are all living history, and it’s hard to say now what will be important in the future. One thing’s certain, though: if we throw it away, it’s gone.

This is the greatest and most fraught romance of modern society, the marriage between the IT staff and those who depend on them.

They seemed to be quiet types, the women and men in rubber-soled shoes. Their favorite word, after literacy, was privacy--for their patrons and themselves.

Libraries have always been there for me. Of course I'll stand up for them.

Look for the positive qualities in your client's negative behavior.

In life, there is always something to feel wonderful about.

The resurrection is our great hope.

Stories come to me in mysterious ways, more like dreams than reasoned creations.

Today's unspeakable perversion is tomorrow's kink, is next week's good clean fun

Peace springs from righteousness in the soul, from upright living.

The current state of knowledge remains vague when history is not considered, just as history remains vague without substantive knowledge about the current state.

There is no such thing as good painting about nothing.

I thought about it for awhile, hiding it from the rest of my mind. But I didn't ruin my birthday by secretly thinking about it too hard

People say "I want peace." If you remove I (ego), and your want (desire), you are left with peace.