By the time a man is 35 he knows that the images of the right man, the tough man, the true man which he received in high school do not work in life.

There are a lot of men who are healthier at age fifty then they have ever been before, because a lot of their fear is gone.

There are years from my childhood that I cannot remember and I cannot forget.

Adolescents believe that the world belongs to the living, or more particularly to living people their age, so they feel within their rights if they destroy the canon or rewrite the fairy stories or act like Red Guards.

Don't go outside your house to see flowers. My friend, don't bother with that excursion. Inside your body there are flowers. One flower has a thousand petals. That will do for a place to sit. Sitting there you will have a glimpse of beauty inside the body and out of it, before gardens and after gardens.

To me, the hope lies in adults forgetting about their retirement and turning toward the adolescents and helping pull the adolescents over that mysterious line drawn on the ground into adulthood. If we don't do that, the adolescents are going to stay exactly where they are for the next 30 or 40 years.

The body weeps the tears the eyes never shed.