"Anyone without a sense of humor is at the mercy of everyone else."

“I bow before the authority of special men because it is imposed upon me by my own reason.”

“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.”

“The United States can't impose democracies. We can't impose our will. The Russians found that out in Afghanistan.”

“I remember opening up my first vinyl and seeing the incredible artwork it had. There's nothing like it. You also get that true gritty sound on vinyl that really makes a rock record sound great, which CDs can never achieve.”

“Met someone who works at the zoo. Apparently the panda is a nasty animal.”

“I am the fonder of my garden for all the trouble it gives me, and the grudging reward that my unending labours exact.”

Source : "In a Yorkshire Garden".

“If you can fly an airplane competently, you can fly it safely even if something does happen.”

Source : Source: www.marieclaire.com

“When you write a novel, there's a level at which you are much more revealing about who you are because you're less self-conscious about how you're presenting yourself. You are accidentally leaving your DNA all over everything in a novel because it's all coming from you.”