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I Happen To Be A Devout Atheist. I Don't Believe In God. I Still Go To Church -- I'm Not A Heathen. I Go To An Atheist Church. We Have Crippled Guys Who Stand Up And Testify That They Were Crippled, And They Still Are.

The Truth Is Libraries Are Raucous Clubhouses For Free Speech, Controversy And Community.

I Was Diagnosed A Number Of Years Ago With Obsessive-compulsive Disorder - Which Everyone Has, To Some Degree - And I Have This Really Annoying Trait Where In Conversation, I Always Steer It Back To Something That Happened To Me.

I Talk To A Lot Of Librarians, And There's Always A Steady Drumbeat Of How Libraries Are Places Of Community. But A Lot Of Them Have Also Recently - And Just In The Nick Of Time - Refurbished, Because During This Economic Downturn, People Have A Tendency To Borrow Instead Of Buy.

I Used To Watch 'the Waltons' And Sob Because My Family Was Nothing Like That. We Had A Cruel Sense Of Humor In My Family.