I feel like I own all the kids in the world because, since I've never grown up myself, all my books are automatically for children.

Poetry expands the senses and keeps them in prime condition. It keeps you aware of your nose, your eye, your ear, your tongue, your hand.

We must all be alike. Not everyone born free and equal, as the Constitution says, but everyone made equal. Each man the image of every other; then all are happy, for there are no mountains to make them cower, to judge themselves against.

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.

Friendship is an island that you retreat to and you all fall on the floor and laugh at all the other ninnies that don't have enough brains to have your good taste.

Can't you recognize the human in the inhuman?

So few want to be rebels anymore. And out of those few, most, like myself, scare easily.