And There Are People Who Want To

Boys Like It When You Talk To Them As If They Were Grown Men—at Least He Always Did When He Was A Kid—because They Pretend That’s What They Are Anyhow, Grown-up Men, And They Do It For Their Entire Lives.

We Are The Planet, Fully As Much As Water, Earth, Fire And Air Are The Planet, And If The Planet Survives, It Will Only Be Through Heroism. Not Occasional Heroism, A Remarkable Instance Of It Here And There, But Constant Heroism, Systematic Heroism, Heroism As Governing Principle.

It Was Strange To Stand There In Front Of The Mirror And See Myself Like I Was My Own Best Friend, A Kid Wanted To Hang With Forever. This Was A Boy I Could Travel To The Seacoasts With, A Boy I'd Like To Meet Up With In Foreign Cities Like Calcutta And London And Brazil, A Boy I Could Trust Who Also Had A Good Sense Of Humor And Liked Smoked Oysters From A Can And Good Weed And The Occasional 40 Ounces Of Malt. If I Was Going To Be Alone For The Rest Of My Life This Was The Person I Wanted To Be Alone With.

Lists Of Books We Reread And Books We Can't Finish Tell More About Us Than About The Relative Worth Of The Books Themselves.

It's Hard To Know More About A Person's Life Than What That Person Wants You To Know.