A book cannot apologize for what people may think it should be. It has to be authoritative.

Knowledge is dangerous and men lie and the world changes, whether I want it to or not.

Shout for libraries. Shout for the young readers who use them.

There is not always a good guy. Nor is there always a bad one. Most people are somewhere in between.

I don’t know what’s ahead,” I say. “I don’t know nothing about nothing but whatever it is, it’s gotta be better than what’s behind. It’s gotta be.

Men do monstrous things but if you call a man a monster you have absolved yourself of blame. You don't have to think that you might ever do these things. I don't think that's true

Do you not wonder sometimes, she showed now, sadly, if in some ways they are correct? That we are asking too much of the world?"No," he said. "They're the ones who are asking for too little."