Many people are angry when they make a mistake, but very few people have the sense to be sorry.

On Decoration Day, while everyone else in town was at the cemetery decorating the graves of our Glorious War Dead, Willie Beaner and me, Robert Burns Hewitt, took Mabel Cramm's bloomers and run them up the flagpole in front of the town hall. That was the beginning of all my troubles.

Impressed. Lord. He had nearly drowned.

I can't believe there will ever be a time when the book is truly obsolete. It is the perfect technology and feeds the soul.

Crazy people who are judged to be harmless are allowed an enormous amount of freedom ordinary people are denied.

She had tricked him. She had made him leave his old self behind and come into her world, and then before he was really at home in it but too late to go back, she had left him stranded there--like an astronaut wandering about on the moon. Alone.

It's like the smarter you are, the more things can scare you.