Well, everybody does it that way, Huck.""Tom, I am not everybody.

Who knows, he may grow up to be President someday, unless they hang him first!" Aunt Polly about Tom Sawyer

But old fools is the biggest fools there is.

Write what you know.

They said they would rather be outlaws a year in Sherwood Forest than President of the United States forever.

Tom Sawyer the Pirate looked around upon the envying juveniles about him and confessed in his heart that this was the proudest moment of his life.

Maybe not, maybe not. Cheer up, Becky, and let's go on trying.

Psalms teaches us how to relate to God, and Proverbs teaches us how to relate to others.

When I was very young I thought I was just like everyone else. I think it took me longer than most to realize I was different and even longer to realize that being different was what made me great

What is a shame is that there isn't stuff that is as great as 'Oz' on a consistent level around today.

Much of my high-jinx have been drug-related. When you're under 30, whatever, but once you're past 40 it's just ugly.

I try to give myself passionately, totally, to whatever I'm observing, with as much affectionate curiosity as I can muster, as a means of understanding a little better what being human is.

Many children fly like birds, guess other people's dreams, and speak with ghosts, but ... they all outgrow it when they lose their innocence.

Alas! we see that the small have always suffered for the follies of the great. [Fr., Helas! on voit que de tout temps Les Petits ont pati des sottises des grands.]

We die alone, but we live among men.

I'm old enough to be Obama's grandmom. But I still like seeing good-looking things. Nothing wrong with that.

The tracing of a child's lineage and its name with reference to the father, though it has lasted for many thousands of years, has not become any the more natural or reasonable as a result.