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A library should be like a pair of open arms.

Just because the person who criticizes you is an idiot doesn't make him wrong.

Death is something that happens to others, you think, until it happens to you.

What is the difference between grief and mourning? Mourning has company.

If a man spends enough time in a library, he may actually change his mind. I have seen it happen.

There is nothing like a man for bringing out the animal in an animal.

Time can be such a menace to a man. By this age do that; by that age do better.

The problem with death is absence

If you need three adjectives to describe something, then you've probably chosen the wrong something.

Friends are lights in winter; the older the friend, the brighter the light.

Why do we write?
"To make suffering endurable
To make evil intelligible
To make justice desirable
and . . . to make love possible

The God I do believe in is the God who doesn't care: James Joyce's God who stands back, paring his fingernails.

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

The belief in potential human virtue underlies the whole idea of the Bill of Rights; the document is a very tough guardian of that belief.

Whatever you think matters - doesn't. Follow this rule, and you will add decades to your life.

Anytime you make a person into something other than himself, you make a monster.

Come September, children return to school, grownups to work, and the brain to the head.

Remote control. Ingenious contradiction of terms. Fits like a handshake. Aims like a gun.

Live in the past, but don't remember too much.

The God worth worshipping is the one who pays us the compliment of self - regulation, and we might return it by minding our own business.

Only by moving in the direction you least trust can you be saved