"I suggest that reading for pleasure, is one of the most important things one can do. I'm making a plea for people to understand what libraries and librarians are, and to preserve both of these things. "

"I was lucky. I had an excellent local library growing up, and met the kind of librarians who did not mind a small, unaccompanied boy heading back into the children's library every morning and working his way through the card catalog, looking for books with ghosts or magic or rockets in them, looking for vampires or detectives or witches or wonders."