What did he understand? Nothing. Where was he headed? Nowhere. What did he want? To know. What? A meaning. Why? A riddle.

I got to wear blinders all the time so I won't think sideways or in the past.

I am not meant to be alone and without you who understands.

The most fatal thing a man can do is try to stand alone.

The people dreamed and fought and slept as much as ever. And by habit they shortened their thoughts so that they would not wander out into the darkness beyond tomorrow.

That was the best of all. To speak the truth and be attended.

The eyes of his friend were moist and dark, and in them he saw the little rectangled pictures of himself that he had watched a thousand times.

It was like that kid had been born knowing how to read. He was only in the second grade but he loved to read stories by himself - and he never asked anybody else to read to him.

Next to music, beer was best.

He did not wholly understand the intricate play of ideas and the complex phrases, but as he read he sensed a strong, who purpose behind the words and he felt that he almost understood.

In one of their quarrels, they had begun calling each other Mister. and Misses., and since then they had never made it up enough to change it.

Don’t be too rigid, always be ready and eager to make new discoveries

It seems that the necessary thing to do is not to fear mistakes, to plunge in, to do the best that one can, hoping to learn enough from blunders to correct them eventually.

O it's Tommy this, and Tommy that, and Tommy 'ow's your soul/But it's thin red line of heroes when the drums begin to roll.

My husband does so many romantic things for me, it's absurd.

Janis Joplin sings the blues as hard as any black person.

It's no surprise that White people say things when they are together about Black people.

I'm not going to become anybody I don't want to become

The plague of man is the opinion of knowledge. That is why ignorance is so recommended by our religion as a quality suitable to belief and obedience.

Right. I’ve been missing Nutty McFang anyway.” “Stop making up names for him.” “What about Count Crackula?” “Just stop.

Divorces led to bodies of men (called legislatures) protecting women collectively as other men (called husbands) failed to protect women individually.