All of the libraries and schools that were devastated in the hurricane are suffering for the books that they need to get to children and I am very proud to be apart of this to restore it.

More and more often I have donors who want to get their employees involved in building the schools and libraries they are supporting. From my point of view, I actually don't really want a bunch of white people doing labor in a developing country.

Schools have never been about getting access to information. That's the job of libraries. Schools and universities have nobler missions as gentle gatekeepers. Their role is to control ideas on the loose and to present the best and noblest ideas to the young.

In Cambodia, they said the problem was that the kids couldn't get to the schools or libraries, so we donated bicycles,

You are a total stranger and you want to take my library book.

Walking the stacks in a library, dragging your fingers across the spines -- it's hard not to feel the presence of sleeping spirits.