"The things which the child loves remain..." - Quote by Khalil Gibran

“History does not repeat itself except in the minds of those who do not know history.”

“Love has no other desire but to fulfill itself, but if you love and must needs have desires, let these be your desires.”

“The love of a parent for a child is the love that should grow towards separation.”

“There is nothing like returning to a place that remains unchanged to find the ways in which you yourself have altered.”

“I cannot fix on the hour, or the spot, or the look or the words, which laid the foundation. It is too long ago. I was in the middle before I knew that I had begun.”

“My chair was nearest to the fireIn every companyThat talked of love or politics,Ere Time transfigured me.”

“In middle school, my friends decided I was weird, and they didn’t like my hair. They ditched me and talked behind my back, which is cool — I’m over it. [laughs] One time I called them and said, “Hey, do you want to go to the Berkshire Mall?” They all gave me excuses and said no. So I go to the mall with my mom, and don’t you know, we run into all of them. Together. Shopping. My mom could see I was about to cry, so she said, “You know what? We’re going to the King of Prussia mall,” which was the mecca.”

“Once in those very early days my brother brought into the nursery the lid of a biscuit tin which he had covered with moss and garnished with twigs and flowers so as to make it a toy garden or a toy forest. That was the first beauty I ever knew. What the real garden had failed to do, the toy garden did. It made me aware of nature-not, indeed, as a storehouse of forms and colors but as something cool, dewy, fresh, exuberant....As long as I live my imagination of Paradise will retain something of my brother's toy garden.”

“I went to a public school through sixth grade, and being good at tests wasn't cool.”