I do not believe in confining children to things they understand. They want, and they need, the thing they do not understand.

I would rather read poetry than eat my dinner any day. It has been so all my life.

Once there was an elephant Who tried to use the telephant. No! no! I mean an elephone Who tried to use the telephone. Dear me, I am not certain quite That even now I've got it right.

Give the child good books, then let it alone! Don't plough and harrow its brain, or stretch it on Procrustes-beds of standardization, simplification, and what not!

Within its gates I heard the soundOf winds in cypress caverns caughtOf huddling tress that moaned, and soughtTo whisper what their roots had found.(“A Dream of Fear”)

Our officers and men behaved like men who are determined to be free.

The reward of art is not fame or success but intoxication.

Stop lying. There isn't enough time left.

Honor begets honor; trust begets trust; faith begets faith; and hope is the mainspring of life.

It's vital to learn how to make the best of things.

Oh, come on, Arthur." "I don't want to hear it, Andy." "Jesus Christ" "He doesn't want to hear it, either.

Memories contain hidden editorials on current events.

Women don't go to war to kill other women. Wars and armies and nuclear weapons are essentially heterosexual hobbies.

To believe practically that the poor and luckless are here only as a nusiance to be abraded and abated, and in some permissable manner made away with, and swept out of sight, is not an amiable faith.