Vowels are the most illuminated letters in the alphabet. Vowels are the colors and souls of poetry and speech.

I'm only interested in people engaged in a project of self-transformation.

Freedom is...the right to write the wrong words.

Boys are just boys after all$$$ but sometimes girls really seem to be the turn of a pale wrist$$$ or the sudden jut of a hip$$$ or a clutch of very dark hair falling across a freckled forehead. I'm not saying that's what they really are. I'm just saying sometimes it seems that way$$$ and that those details (a thigh mole$$$ a full face flush$$$ a scar the precise shape and size of a cashew nut) are so many hooks waiting to land you.

If freedom is a requisite for human happiness$$$ then all thats necessary is to provide the illusion of freedom.

A fourth-grade reader may be a sixth-grade mathematician. The grade is an administrative device which does violence to the nature of the developmental process.

We shouldn't teach great books; we should teach a love of reading. Knowing the contents of a few works of literature is a trivial achievement. Being inclined to go on reading is a great achievement.

A brave captain is as a root$$$ out of which$$$ as branches$$$ the courage of his soldiers doth spring.

I had rather not have any more of my hopes and illusions mocked by sad realities.

Cold hopes swarm like worms within our living clay.