"He says, you have to study and learn so that you can make up your own mind about history and everything else but you can’t make up an empty mind. Stock your mind, stock your mind. You might be poor, your shoes might be broken, but your mind is a palace."
— Frank McCourt (Angela's Ashes)

"It may be that our role on this planet
is not to worship God--but to create him."
— Arthur C. Clarke

"If you wait, all that happens is that you get older."
— Larry McMurtry

"The difference between stupid and intelligent people – and this is true whether or not they are well-educated – is that intelligent people can handle subtlety. "
— Neal Stephenson (The Diamond Age: Or, a Young Lady's Illustrated Primer)

"You don't have to burn books to destroy a culture. Just get people to stop reading them."
— Ray Bradbury

"Be still when you have nothing to say; when genuine passion moves you, say what you've got to say, and say it hot."
— D.H. Lawrence

"The door of a bigoted mind opens outwards so that the only result of the pressure of facts upon it is to close it more snugly."
— Ogden Nash

"Try to understand men. If you understand each other you will be kind to each other. Knowing a man well never leads to hate and almost always leads to love."
— John Steinbeck

"[I]t's not just the books under fire now that worry me. It is the books that will never be written. The books that will never be read. And all due to the fear of censorship. As always, young readers will be the real losers."
— Judy Blume