You must live feverishly in a library. Colleges are not going to do any good unless you are raised and live in a library everyday of your life.

And suddenly everything, absolutely everything, was there.

You don't have to turn on the TV set. You don't have to work on the Internet. It's up to you.

Surprise is where creativity comes in.

You're not like the others. I've seen a few; I know. When I talk, you look at me. When I said something about the moon, you looked at the moon.

One year Halloween came on October 24, three hours after midnight. At that time, James Nightshade of 97 Oak Street was thirteen years, eleven months, twenty-three days old. Next door, William Halloway was thirteen years, eleven months, and twenty-four days old. Both touched toward fourteen; it almost trembled in their hands. And that was the October week when they grew up overnight, and were never so young any more.

If God treats you well by teaching you a disastrous lesson, you never forget it.