“Librarians are almost always very helpful and often almost absurdly knowledgeable. Their skills are probably underestimated and largely underemployed.”
“Indeed a lie is often more plausible than the truth. "Almost" always. The truth, of course, is never very plausible.”
“An educated person is one who has learned that information almost always turns out to be at best incomplete and very often false, misleading, fictitious, mendacious - just dead wrong. ”
“He had the appeal of a very young dog of a very large breed -- a kind of amiable absurdity.”
“Good librarians are natural intelligence operatives. They possess all of the skills and characteristics required for that work: curiosity, wide-ranging knowledge, good memories, organization and analytical aptitude, and discretion.”
“History indicates that wolf control is sometimes poor biology, often poor economics, and almost always poor public relations.”