There's a way that money is freedom, but it isn't money, it's that money stands for having a choice.

It doesn't matter. I have books, new books, and I can bear anything as long as there are books.

Interlibrary loans are a wonder of the world and a glory of civilization.

If I were omnipotent and omnibenevolent I wouldn't be so damn ineffable.

If you love books enough, books will love you back.

I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.

You can't do magic with books unless they're very special copies.

One of the things I've always liked about science fiction is the way it makes you think about things, and look at things from angles you'd never have thought about before.

magic can make things happen before you do it. It can make things have happened.

You can never be sure where you are with magic.

I wish magic was more dramatic

The Word is light and the Holy Spirit is oxygen

They spent the first three years of school getting you to pretend stuff and then the rest of it marking you down if you did the same thing.

Facebook gives people an illusory sense of being LIKED.

With the smell of beer I try to get the smell of death off me. And only the smell of death will get the smell of beer off you, like all the drinkers whose graves I have to dig.

I certainly want campaign finance reform. I just wish this would do it in a way that would stand up to a constitutional challenge.

All I can do is just go in there and tighten up my game, tighten up my handles. Just all the little basic things that you wouldn't even think about, the fundamental parts of the game.

Corruption at every level, city, state, federal, all has helped in making New Orleans a disaster area, the most disappearing land mass on the planet Earth.

The most terrible thing about it is not that it breaks one’s heart—hearts are made to be broken—but that it turns one’s heart to stone.

My temperament is not inclined toward more self-promotion than is absolutely necessary for my professional well-being.

That's the thing about independently minded children. You bring them up teaching them to question authority, and you forget that the very first authority they question is you.