All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

All children... feel a demonic sympathy with those things that cause disorder in the grown-up world.

Knowledge is devalued when it becomes too generally known

So, without saying anything to the others, it made its way to the farthest corner of the meadow and began to toast an imaginary muffin. That was always the best way to unwind when things got to be too much for it.

Here was a flower (the daisy reflected) strangely like itself and yet utterly unlike itself too. Such a paradox has often been the basis for the most impassioned love.

Poets are regarded as handicapped writers whose work must be treated with a tender condescension, such as one accords the athletic achievements of basketball players confined to wheelchairs.

Science Fiction is a branch of children's literature.