People want to be special. I think ambition can take in a whole package of things, power or sexual excitement.
All farms are much alike everywhere, and all wild places have their own beauty.
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.
He that lives upon hope will die fasting.
Redd Foxx was the same gruff old codger you saw on television.
We should be blessed if we lived in the present always, and took advantage of every accident that befell us, like the grass which confesses the influence of the slightest dew that falls on it; and did not spend our time in atoning for the neglect of past opportunities, which we call doing our duty.
Knowledge does away with darkness, [anxiety], and doubt; for these cannot exist where knowledge is.