Schizoid behavior is a pretty common thing in children. It's accepted, because all we adults have this unspoken agreement that children are lunatics.

Come to a book as you would come to an unexplored land. Come without a map. Explore it, and draw your own map.... A book is like a pump. It gives nothing unless first you give to it.

They're animals, all right. But why are you so goddam sure that makes us human beings?

Human Nature Baby, grab it and growl.

Pain is the biggest power of love.

But sorry is the Kool-Aid of human emotions. [...] True sorrow is as rare as true love.

Fear is the emotion that makes us blind.