“Why' is a crooked letter and can't be made straight.”

“The greatest mystery the universe offers is not life but Size.”

“But this wealth of information produced little or no insight.”

“The woman who preaches has poison religion. Let the respectable ones go”

“Shall there be truth between us, as two men? Not as friends, but as enemies and equals?”

“He was one of those quite rare adults who communicate with small children fairly well and who love them all impartially--not in a sugary way but in a businesslike fashion that may sometimes entail ...”

“I was happy, but happy is an adult word. You don't have to ask a child about happy, you see it. They are or they are not. Adults talk about being happy because largely they are not. Talking about i...”

“Dear God," she prayed, "let me be something every minute of every hour of my life. Let me be gay; let me be sad. Let me be cold; let me be warm. Let me be hungry...have too much to eat. Let me be r...”

“I walked over to the hill where we used to go and sled. There were a lot of little kids there. I watched them flying. Doing jumps and having races. And I thought that all those little kids are goin...”