“It's the wanting to know that makes us matter.”

“To know things, for us to know things, is bad for them. We get to wanting and when we get to wanting it's bad for them. They thinks we want what they got . . . . That's why they don't want us reading.”

“It doesn't make you a monster to want, she said, her voice very gentle. It's what you do with it that matters.”

“You know its funny how freedom can make us feel contained”

“Curiosity is what separates us from the cabbages. It's accelerative. The more we know, the more we want to know.”

“A feeble body makes a feeble mind. I do not know what doctors cure us of, but I know this: they infect us with very deadly diseases, cowardice, timidity, credulity, the fear of death. What matter if they make the dead walk, we have no need of corpses; they fail to give us men, and it is men we need.”