You have to do what you think is the right thing, but just make sure it’s the right thing in the long run, and not just for the moment.

It seemed clear that wars were not made by generations and their special stupidities, but that wars were made instead by something ignorant in the human heart

the scornful force of his tone turned the word into a curse

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

As I walked briskly out the road the wind knifed at my face, but this sun caressed the back of my neck.

Everything has to evolve or else it perishes.

The summer of 1943 at Exeter was as happy a time as I ever had in my life.