Stories you read when you're the right age never quite leave you. You may forget who wrote them or what the story was called. Sometimes you'll forget precisely what happened, but if a story touches you it will stay with you, haunting the places in your mind that you rarely ever visit.

"The world is a very puzzling place, and it is a great privilege to be able to think about it."

The very existence of libraries affords the best evidence that we may yet have hope for the future of man.