"To write is to breathe, and to breathe is to live."

With a library you are free, not confined by temporary political climates. It is the most democratic of institutions because no one - but no one at all - can tell you what to read and when and how.

Business opportunities are like buses, there's always another one coming.

New opinions are always suspected, and usually opposed, without any other reason but because they are not already common.

"Sometimes, you have to be a little bit naughty to get what you want."

"The power of science fiction is that it can make the impossible seem possible."