Naturally I don't believe books and I don't believe teachers, but I do believe-it's important for me to… — John Knowles

I lost part of myself to him then, and a soaring sense of freedom revealed that this must have been my purpose from the first: to become a part of Phineas.

Nothing endures, not a tree, not love, not even a death by violence.

Stranded in this mill town railroad yard while the whole world was converging elsewhere, we seemed to be nothing but children playing among heroic men.