And I know that the younger generation is doing things that are so ingenious. And for them it's not a matter of a political belief or an environmental stance. It's really just common sense
If you love books enough, books will love you back.
I care more about the people in books than the people I see every day.
It's wrong for libraries to have limited budgets.
I sat on the bench by the willows and at my honey bun and read Triton. There are some awful things in the world, it’s true, but there are also some great books. When I grow up I would like to write something that someone could read sitting on a bench on a day that isn’t all that warm and they could sit reading it and totally forget where they were or what time it was so that they were more inside the book than inside their own head. I’d like to write like Delany or Heinlein or Le Guin.
Tolkien understood about the things that happen after the end. Because this is after the end, this is all the Scouring of the Shire, this is figuring out how to live in the time that wasn’t supposed to happen after the glorious last stand. I saved the world, or I think I did, and look, the world is still here, with sunsets and interlibrary loans. And it doesn’t care about me any more than the Shire cared about Frodo.
It's amazing how large the things are that it's possible to overlook.
In America, everybody thinks they're an entrepreneur. That's the problem. It's not a title that anybody should call oneself.
Your problems never cease, they just change.
The planet's survival has become so uncertain that any effort, any thought that presupposes an assured future amounts to a mad gamble.
The principle rule of interpreting Scripture is that Scripture interprets Scripture.