If our language is watered down, then mankind becomes less human, and less free.

Believing takes practice.

Like all great fantasists, he has taught me about life, life in eternity rather than chronology, life in that time in which we are real.

I have never lived before...Until this summer, I did not know what it was to be alive.

Nothing important is completely explicable.

There was no light. The darkness was deep and there was no dazzle.

Calvin said, "Do you know that this is the first time I've seen you without your glasses?" "I'm blind as a bat without them. I'm near-sighted, like father." "Well, you know what, you've got dream-boat eyes," Calvin said. "Listen, you go right on wearing your glasses. I don't think I want anybody else to see what gorgeous eyes you have.