These are not books, lumps of lifeless paper, but minds alive on the shelves. From each of them goes out its own voice... and just as the touch of a ….

A library is a place where you learn what teachers were afraid to teach you..

Utiliza el nombre correcto para las cosas. El miedo a un nombre aumenta el miedo a la cosa que se nombra..

Expect much of God, and he will do much for you..

A lot of what the 'Culture' is about is a reaction to all the science fiction I was reading in my very early teens..

What we seek is what we are..

Why do you all push us around?.

The time had just come when I had been pushed as far as I could stand to be pushed..

There is no future without education..

He is not to them what he is to me..

You transfix me quite..

[I]n his presence I thoroughly lived..

Everything I touch is a success..

I don't have the genetic make-up of a frontman, but I'm learning how to do it..

I don't live to work; I work to live..

Just because I’m single and don’t date a lot, that doesn’t make me a lesbian..

I was stained by failure..

Whatever everyone else has asked you to do or never let you do, and let's do that..

At about the age of seven … I wrote exactly the kinds of stories I was reading: All my characters were white and blue-eyed, they played in the snow, ….

You do not get power so that you can go out and do things, you go out and do things and you will get the power.

What is religion? That which is never spoken..