"Some days you must learn a great deal. But you should also have days when you allow what is already in you to swell up and touch everything. If you never let that happen, then you just accumulate fact..."
- E.L. Konigsburg
"I've been the oldest child since before you were born"
"Happiness is excitement that has found a settling down place, but there is always a little corner that keeps flapping around."
"Nathan, how can you stand playing the same piece over and over again?" And Grandpa Nate answered, "Why don't you ask me how I can stand making love to the same woman over and over again?"
"Friendship depends on interlocking time, place, and state of mind."
"...I didn't run away to come home the same. -Claudia"
"It takes more courage to disturb the neighborhood than it takes to disturb the universe. And the price is often higher."
"In some way, every creative action disturbs the universe."
"Because we are human we have a long childhood, and one of the jobs of that childhood is to sculpt our brains. We have years--about twelve of them--to draw outlines of the shape we want our sculpted br..."
"I want all the books on the she"