My boyhood life in New York City has impressed me with the…

“Bundy Rum- better than local anaesthetic.”

— Cheryse Durrant

What we need is not more Federal government, but better local government.

— Calvin Coolidge

I never considered I might make a career out of writing as I was going to school, so when I did turn my attentions…

— Kim Harrison

“The calculation of ignorance is too great for any calculator, only someone who has experienced bliss and genuine ignorance can determine valid or not,…

— Aaron Ozee

Elective ignorance was a great survival skill, perhaps the greatest.

— Jonathan Franzen

The pleasures of ignorance are as great, in their way, as the pleasures of knowledge.

— Aldous Huxley

“And I would sit there, smiling stupidly and realizing they had no idea how rare and lucky they were, and realizing further that this…

— Ron Currie Jr

“Read it wisely, Little One, for the power of ignorance is great.”

— Stephen Fry

Dog love is not the special realm of childhood or of boyhood, no matter what the movies keep telling us. It is highly significant,…

— Marjorie Garber

“Some might have referred to Vince, Buck and Calvin as "ordinary fellows" or "salt of the earth". Such terms are merely code for men…

— Julia Glass

Study is the scourge of boyhood, the environment of youth, the indulgence of adults and the curative for the aged.

— Saul Landau

It is in the brain, and the brain only, that the great sins of the world take place also. You, Mr. Gray, you yourself,…

— Oscar Wilde

“Has it ever befallen you, my readers, to become suddenly aware that your conception of things has altered — as though every object in…

— Leo Tolstoy

Nothing moves a woman so deeply as the boyhood of the man she loves.

— Annie Dillard

That toil of growing up; The ignominy of boyhood; the distress Of boyhood changing into man; The unfinished man and his pain.

— William Butler Yeats