“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life. It's strange, but when you get hurt - really hurt, I mean - you're willing to… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“Sunday morning dawned bright and cloudless. Ernest awoke early as always. He put on the red "Emporor's robe" and padded softly down the carpeted stairway. The early sunlight lay in pools on the living room floor. He had noticed that… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“We're kicking our way into adolescence from the minute we're born. Gradually you form your own ideas of how you should lead your life.… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“Anyone who had died young after a happy childhood had won a great victory, since he would be forever spared the discovery of what… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“Sunday morning dawned bright and cloudless. Ernest awoke early as always. He put on the red "Emporor's robe" and padded softly down the carpeted… — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image
“But the past, he concluded, was as dead as a smashed Victrola record. "Chasing yesterdays," said he, "is a bum show".” — Carlos Baker Copy Share Image