"As you make a prototype, assume you are right and everyone else is wrong. When you share your prototype, assume you are wrong and everyone else is right."

“I am black, so with my writing and my voice, you get that kind of dialect.”

“A tomato may be a fruit, but it is a singular fruit. A savory fruit. A fruit that has ambitions far beyond the ambitions of other fruits.”

Source : E. Lockhart (2014). “The Disreputable History of Frankie Landau-Banks”, p.61, Hot Key Books

“A living creature develops a destructive impulse when it wants to destroy a source of danger... The original motive is not pleasure in destruction... I destroy in a dangerous situation because I want to live and do not want to have any anxiety. In short, the impulse to destroy serves a primary biological will to live...”

“what is life worth if one has nothing to give away? This lack, it seems to me, must be the sharpest pang of poverty.”

Source : Mabel Osgood Wright (1901). “The garden of a commuter's wife”

“I love my son, but my daughter has calmed me down.”

“People think librarians are unromantic, unimaginative. This is not true. We are people whose dreams run in particular ways. Ask a mountain climber what he feels when he sees a mountain; a lion tamer what goes through his mind when he meets a new lion; a doctor confronted with a beautiful malfunctioning body. The idea of a library full of books, the books full of knowledge, fills me with fear and love and courage and endless wonder.”

“I think it's just a lack of ability, we're incapable of writing hits.”

“I think, therefore I am' is the statement of an intellectual who underrates toothaches.”