Even a feeble-minded man wants to be like other men." --Charlie Gordan

Here look at me. I'm Charlie, the son you wrote off the books? Not that I blame you for it, but here I am, all fixed up better than ever. Test me. Ask me questions. I speak twenty languages, living and dead; I'm a mathematical whiz, and I'm writing a piano concerto that will make them remember me long after I'm gone.

I was her bestist pupil in the Beckman School for retarted adults and I tryed the hardist becus I reely wantd to lern I wantid it more even then pepul who are smarter even then me.

How can I make him understand that he did not create me? He makes the same mistake as the others when they look at a feeble-minded person and laugh because they don't understand there are human feelings involved.

Because I want to see. I've got to know what's going to happen while I'm still enough in control to be able to do something about it.

There are so many doors to open. I am impatient to begin." --Charlie Gordan

Strange about learning; the farther I go the more I see that I never knew even existed.