“Giving English to an American is like giving sex to a child.”

You don’t need fancy highbrow traditions or money to really learn.

He knows it’s important but he doesn’t know what to do with it.

You just need people with the desire to better themselves.

It is hard to create a first-person narrator that can be a child and yet is able to take in enough information for the narrative to be legible to the reader.

As a child, I swallowed the hurt. Now, at the slightest touch, I bleed.

I want to be spoiled like a child. Cry to my heart’s content. But I can only suppress my feelings.

I think Allen [Ginsberg] was a person who’s like a child.

As a child, I thought I was immortal, but now I recognize how limited a time we all have. As a child, success meant scoring A on every exam, but now I take it to mean good health, close family and friends, achieve- ments in my work, and helping others.

When I was a child, I thought of my Delta town as the center of the universe, but now I realize how little I know about the universe.

The soul begins to travel when the child begins to think.

Even when I was still a child I cut out pictures of prams from newspapers and imagined the feeling of pushing my own pram through fresh winter snow and seeing the wheels’ tracks behind me in the snow.