The trouble with being poor is that it takes up all of your time.
I was not a child prodigy, because a child prodigy is a child who knows as much when it is a child as it does when it grows up.
Feet, why do I need them if I have wings to fly?
Books...are like lobster shells, we surround ourselves with 'em, then we grow out of 'em and leave 'em behind, as evidence of our earlier stages of development.
There is still a difference between something and nothing, but it is purely geometrical and there is nothing behind the geometry.
What children take from us, they give?We become people who feel more deeply, question more deeply, hurt more deeply, and love more deeply.
Normal is not something to aspire to, it's something to get away from.