“If you want to be a reference librarian, you must learn to overcome not only your shyness but also the shyness of others!”

“Every reader his or her book.Every book its reader.”

“Believe in your flyness...conquer your shyness”

“home is where your ass is and if you want to move you move your ass the first step is learning to change homes with someone else and have someone else's ass.”

“Hap, even tough I'm a racist castrating bitch that wants you to be better than you are, wants you to do something with your life besides be a knockabout, do you think you could find it in your heart, in your itty-bitty white man's dick, to get a hard-on for me? In other words, want to fuck?”

“true humility is when you can surprise yourself more than others; the rest is either shyness or good marketing”

“Perserverance: Outlasting the most rash, pessimistic, cowardly naysayers; those first in line to deny us the dreams never tried. Ourselves.”