“...delineated with signs reading:TOWN OF AMHERSTWATERSHEDNO TRESPASSINGWhich every boy in the neighborhood understood as:PRIVATE PRESERVE FOR KIDS”
“for business reasons, I must preserve the outward signs of sanity.”
“Every man is surrounded by a neighborhood of voluntary spies.”
“Above the street, like a hanged man, swings the spot-lit sign of the neighborhood's best restaurant, closed a long time ago.”
“Not being understood may be taken as a sign that there is much in one to understand.”
“I understood books. I did not understand boys—especially alien boys.”