“This is Huck Finn, a child of mine of shady reputation. Be good to him for his parent's sake.”

“You can't pray a lie" Huck Finn”

“There ain't anything that is so interesting to look at as a place that a book has talked about. -- Huck Finn”

“J. D. Salinger's Holden Caulfield is a literary descendant of Huck Finn: more educated and sophisticated, the son of affluent New Yorkers, but like Huck a youthful runaway from a world of adult hypocrisy, venality and, to use one of his own favourite words, phoniness. What particularly appals Holden is the eagerness of his peers to adopt that corrupt grownup behaviour.”

“Who has not for the sake of his reputation sacrificed himself?”

“The mob hysteria over pedophiles has reached epidemic proportions and driven parents to panic. Today's Just Williams, today's Huck Finns, today's Swallows and Amazons are deprived of the freedom to roam that was one of the delights of childhood in earlier times (when the actual, as opposed to the perceived, risk of molestation was probably no less).”