“Lost: The common sense of an unconventional dreamer. If found, please return to Love The Stacks.”

“Learning new things exercises the brain in such a titillating way.”

“I love staring at my books for hours just trying to decide which book to read next. Doing that is almost as fun as actually reading them.”

“Authors: The only people you thank for leaving you emotionally devastated.”

“Books have a complete disregard for your feelings. They don't care if you are crying. They are going to continue making you cry.”

“Authors are but the instrument to be played. The art is inside them, but many people help create it.”

“Sibyl, what do you want?I want to live, the Sibyl said, and her voice rang rich and full. I want to keep on living forever and watching heroes and fools and knights go up and down, into the world a...”

“When God is driven to the periphery of the public square, the human spiritual capacity longs for exercise, and it often finds it in the suspension of disbelief and activity of the imagination that ...”

“When is a monster not a monster? Oh, when you love it.”

“A lady's imagination is very rapid; it jumps from admiration to love, from love to matrimony in a moment.”

“I've always said that idleness dulls the spirit. We have to keep the brain busy, or at least the hands if we don't have a brain.”

“If your workplace was somehow transplanted into the jungle and everyone was forced to survive at a very primitive level, it's safe to say that eventually your boss would rape you.”

“We realized that among us, among all the races, we had a staggering fund of knowledge and of techniques - that working together, by putting together all this knowledge and capability, we could arri...”

“It seems to me, Golan, that the advance of civilization is nothing but an exercise in the limiting of privacy.”

“Science fiction at its best should be crazy and dangerous, not sane and safe.”