How pleased we are to have our eyes opened but how easily we close them again.

As a kid, I didn't read a great deal of fiction, and I've forgotten most of what I did read.

All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

I could invent another world. I'm not terribly keen on this one.

From a good book, I want to be taken to the very edge. I want a glimpse into that outer darkness.

...and there was nothing to do except to wait and to hurt.

I do not like strangers because I do not like people I have never met before. They are hard to understand.