“Obstacles are challenges for winners and excuses for losers”

“Tucker, to make anything work, from meat loaf to a marriage, there are two things you have to do. Forgive and continue.”

“When I get nervous, I go to the library and hang around. The libraries are filled with people who are nervous. You can blend in with them there. You're bound to see someone more nervous than you are in a library. Sometimes the librarians themselves are more nervous than you are. I'll probably be a librarian for that reason. Then if I'm nervous on the job, it won't show. I'll just stamp books and look things up for people and run back and forth to the staff room sneaking smokes until I get hold of myself. A library is a great place to hid.”

“It seemed to him that anyone with any trouble at all eventually found his way to a city library, and the really troubled ones became regulars.”

“Strangers take a long time to become acquainted, particularly when they are from the same family.”

“Sometimes, challenges and struggles are exactly what we need in our lives...May you welcome every effort, every struggle, and every challenge...May you open your wings and fly!”

“(Washington) Irving was only the first of the writers of the American ghostly tale to recognize that the supernatural, exactly because its epistemological status is so difficult to determine, challenged the writer to invent a commensurately sophisticated narrative technique.”