“Let things taste of what they are.”

“Teaching kids how to feed themselves and how to live in a community responsibly is the center of an education.”

“I always wanted to be a juvenile delinquent but my parents wouldn't let me.”

“Sometimes the butterflies were there just to make you queasy; sometimes the butterflies were there to let you know that something good was on its way”

“It's a curious, wanting thing.”

“It wasn't until I started reading and found books they wouldn't let us read in school that I discovered you could be insane and happy and have a good life without being like everybody else.”

“What is it like.... what is it like to be dead?' Evan looked at him with his dull, unblinking blue eyes, ' I don't know, what is it like...... to be alive?”