Quotes
"Twisted and perverse are the ways of the human mind," Jane intoned. "Pinocchio was such a dolt to try to become a real boy. He was much better off with a wooden head."
"I want to understand everything," said Miro. "I want to know everything and put it all together to see what it means."
"Excellent project," she said. "It will look very good on your resume."
My, but I miss the days when we never talked to each other for weeks at a time.
It is raining. I am tempted to write a poem. But I remember what it said on one rejection slip: After a heavy rainfall, poems titled RAIN pour in from across the nation.
There must be quite a few things a hot bath won't cure, but I don't know many of them.
I never feel so much myself as when I'm in a hot bath.
There is something demoralizing about watching two people get more and more crazy about each other, especially when you are the only extra person in the room.
Lawyers, I suppose, were children once.
So it took an eight-year-old child to bring 'em to their senses.... That proves something — that a gang of wild animals can be stopped, simply because they're still human. Hmp, maybe we need a police force of children.
"I think I'll be a clown when I get grown," said Dill. "Yes, sir, a clown.... There ain't one thing in this world I can do about folks except laugh, so I'm gonna join the circus and laugh my head off."
"You got it backwards, Dill," said Jem. "Clowns are sad, it's folks that laugh at them."
"Well, I'm gonna be a new kind of clown. I'm gonna stand in the middle of the ring and laugh at the folks."
Our culture runs on coffee and gasoline, the first often tasting like the second.
No, Your Majesty, I do not like kings, but I do like a man behind a king when I find him.
