“His deepest need was that people should like him. An admirable trait that; in a spaniel. Or a whore.”

“Most people live for love and admiration. But it is by love and admiration that we should live.”

“Most people would say that Joseph treated me like a whore. It was only without him that I actually felt like one.”

“He keeps his deepest belief tight to him: that people are good and want to be good, if only you give them a chance.”

“There was no being displeased with such an encourager, for his admiration made him discern a likeness before it was possible.”

“A teenager deserves a library that recognizes reality. He needs an information source and study area that does not impose arbitrary, crippling rules on him. His library should recognize that dignity and silence are not prior requisites to learning […] He would like, needs, and deserves for other people to stop trying to protect him and allow him the right to choose information for himself […] Most of all the teenager needs people in libraries to recognize and accept him as a respectable human being.”