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

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

You know what I'd love to read? A Dialogue between Bron and Shevek and Socrates. Socrates would love it too. I bet he wanted people who argued. You can tell he did, you can tell that's what he loved really, at least in The Symposium.

Libraries really are wonderful. They're better than bookshops, even. I mean bookshops make a profit on selling you books, but libraries just sit there lending you books quietly out of the goodness of their hearts.

There's a sunrise and a sunset every single day, and they're absolutely free. Don't miss so many of them.

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