The only reason for being young is to outgrow it.
Gertrude Stein was masterly in making nothing happen very slowly
By the end of high school I was not of course an educated man, but I knew how to try to become one
Being a child is in itself a profession.
Insomnia is a gross feeder. It will nourish itself on any kind of thinking, including thinking about not thinking.
To read in bed is to draw around us invisible, noiseless curtains. Then at last we are in a room of our own and are ready to burrow back, back to that private life of the imagination we all led as a child and to whose secret satisfactions so many of us have mislaid the key.