“Children love to be alone because alone is where they know themselves and where they dream.”

“Do not keep company with people who speak of careers. Not only are such people uninteresting in themselves; they also have no interest in anything interesting. . . . Keep company with people who are interested in the world outside themselves. The one who never asks you what you are working on; who never inquires as to the success of your latest project; who never uses the word career as a noun -- he is your friend.”

“Why do we write?"To make suffering endurableTo make evil intelligibleTo make justice desirableand . . . to make love possible”

“A library should be like a pair of open arms.”

“There may be no more pleasing picture in the world than that of a child peering into a book - the past and the future entrancing each other.”

“I'm going to kill Fairy Tale Dora and my little dog too.”

“Because we are human, because we are bound by gravity and the limitations of our bodies, because we live in a world where the news is often bad and the prospects disturbing, there is a need for another world somewhere, a world where Fred Astaire and Ginger Rogers live.”