Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

Everything matters terribly to children, you know, they're fresh and unformed.

my rebelliousness went so deep that, faced with a can of asparagus that instructed me to open at this end, I always, stubbornly, opened it at the other.

When we live with a memory we live with a corpse; the impact of the experience has changed us once but can never change us again.

will anything but fanaticism make for change? Wisdom and compromise come later.

People need dreams, there's as much nourishment in them as food.

Perhaps we clutch at life only when we have never lived or trusted it. Then death seems the last and greatest defeat, the end of something never felt.