“Libraries represent the sole contemporary American institution with the potential for making available a wide-ranging, genuinely diverse spectrum of opinions, cultural expressions, and ideas in an environment that is commercial-free and huckster-free, a commons where people can gather and select, in an un-intimidating atmosphere, whatever interests them, delights them, or even repels them--whatever they want to know about.”

“I can't have information I know would be of interest to someone and not share it.”

“Birds sing after a storm; why shouldn't people feel as free to delight in whatever sunlight remains to them?”

“In order to generate ideological paradigms sufficient to explain the demands for military sacrifice, intellectuals rearticulate the cultural project: the battle for culture becomes the battle for the people’s culture which in turn endows participation in the war effort with a democratic appearance. The de facto defense of the empire and imperialism is inverted, by the magic of culture, into a defense of the people.”

“Um, yeah. For instance, take, you know, take, for instance, the issue of -- I'm drawing a blank, and I hate it when I do that, particularly on television.-- potential McCain VP candidate Mark Sanford, asked on CNN to name differences in economic policy between Bush and McCain”

“out in the wide readership,his younger brother was kicking an ice bucket in the woods behind the Marriott,his younger brother who was missing that part of the brain that allows you to make out with your pillow.Poor kid.”

“The American actor is very lucky... Because so little is asked of him.”