“The best a writer can hope for is hatred by the masses, revulsion among one's peers.”

“this is a Free Planet.”

“What can I say? Librarians rule.”

“You are as good as anybody and better than most”

“The number of books students read...is among the best indicators of student reading development.”

“Success is about having, excellence is about being. Success is about having money and fame, but excellence is being the best you can be.”

“War can condition a person to be resilient, tolerant, dependable, strong, and capable of so much more than one who had experienced nothing of it; it can bring out the very best in us, but also the very worst. Where is it, I ask, the proper conduit through which a soldier should be raised from whence they would become an upstanding citizen of the world, instead of a single country?”