“Most people think everybody feels about them much more violently than they actually do; they think other people's opinions of them swing through great arcs of approval or disapproval.”

“Many people need desperately to receive this message: 'I feel and think much as you do, care about many of the things you care about, although most people do not care about them. You are not alone.”

“The great unsold truth of libraries is that people need them not because they’re about study and solitude, but because they’re about connection. Connection with other worlds and different views, even if that’s no more than being among other people thinking and breathing.”

“Television characters live inside our minds as though they're actual people. In fact, we know more about them than we do about most people in our physical lives.”

“Worry less about what other people think about you, and more about what you think about them.”

“Most people do not actually know how to think for themselves, and unfortunately that prevents them from even knowing it.”