"Librarian is a service occupation. Gas station attendant of the mind."
— Richard Powers

"The truth needs so little rehearsal."
— Barbara Kingsolver

"If every U.S. citizen ate just one meal a week (any meal) composed of locally and organically raised meats and produce, we would reduce our country's oil consumption by over 1.1 million barrels of oil every week."
— Barbara Kingsolver and Steven Hopp (Animal, Vegetable, Miracle: A Year of Food Life)

"It's the one thing we never quite get over: that we contain our own future."
— Barbara Kingsolver