“Before parents accept the wisdeom of a school board to cut school librarians, they should ask: Will my child graduate with a 21st-century resume, or a 19th-century transcript? . . . As the information landscape becomes ever more complex, why does a school district want to abandon its professional guides to it?”

“In the first place God made idiots. This was for practice. Then he made school boards.”

“I'm a 21st-century kid trapped in a 19th-century family.”

“Feminism needs Zero Tolerance over baby angst. In the 21st century, it can't be about who we might make, and what they might do, anymore. It has to be about who we are, and what we're going to do.”

“Middle school is for being like everyone else; middle age is for being like yourself. (430)”

“We're trying to run a 21st century society and economy with 19th century Darwinian, competitive, crude ideas.”

“Jordan used to say that the perfect environment for a game is a closed space, be it in the seven cars in The Last Express, or a spaceship, for that matter.”