"I've been talking about the centrality of libraries in our information society for a while now."

“The harmonica is the most voice-like instrument, you can make it wail, feel happy, or cry. It's like singing the blues without words.”

“The religion of the short poem, in every age and in every literature, has a single commandment: Less is always more. The short poem rejects preamble and summary. It's about all and everything, the metaphysics of a few words surrounded by much silence. …The short poem is a match flaring up in a dark universe.”

“I don't know of any other creature on earth other than man that will sit in a corner and cry because of some painful experience in the past.”

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“In my adult life, I had spent a lot of time angry at God, mostly over the sudden deaths in my family - my brother at 30, my daughter at 5.”

“I think one's sexuality can be the center of life, and coming out and discovering your sexuality is something that really can define your existence.”

“As a dedicated and proud father of three, I am a strong advocate of life. I value life whether born or unborn.”

“Whatever the world thinks, he who hath not much meditated upon God, the human soul, and the summum bonum, may possibly make a thriving earthworm, but will most indubitably make a sorry patriot and a sorry statesman.”

“I believe that whatever comes at a particular time is a blessing from God.”