“Having people in different optimal environments increases the chances of survival of the human race as a whole. It is nature's way to preserve her species.”

“The introvert is pressured daily, almost from the moment of awakening, to respond and conform to the outer world.”

“She looked at ways to quantify life. Analytic in nature, her head almost always overruled her heart. Love it? Hate it? She wanted to KNOW it.”

“It seems that I'm very good at negotiating having safe sex, but I actually have no idea how to ask if we can stop,”

“Lineage, personality, and environment may shape you, but they do not define your full potential.”

“But love, like the sun that it is, sets afire and melts everything. what greed and privilege to build up over whole centuries the indignation of a pious spirit, with its natural following of oppressed souls, will cast down with a single shove.”

“Librarians wield unfathomable power. With a flip of the wrist they can hide your dissertation behind piles of old Field and Stream magazines. They can find data for your term paper that you never knew existed. They may even point you toward new and appropriate subject headings. Their knowledge extends beyond mere categories. They cannot be confined to disciplines. Librarians are all-knowing and all-seeing. They bring order to chaos. They bring wisdom and culture to the masses. They preserve every aspect of human knowledge. Librarians rule...”