“My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.” — Lloyd Alexander Quote

“My concern is how we learn to be genuine human beings.”

“There's a kind of funny gap between 14 and 20 when young people don't read very much. Nobody really knows what to do about it, although we've tried to reach these dropout readers with the 'young adult' book.”

“It was 1943. The U.S. had already entered World War II, so I decided to join the army.”

“When we human beings hypothesize that a law of nature holds - even temporarily or situationally - we are creating an idea, but we are also making a hypothesis about how nature behaves, whose truth or usefulness has nothing to do with what we know or believe.”

“Only the liberation of the natural capacity for love in human beings can master their sadistic destructiveness.”

“There is a biblical injunction to tell your children, but the sages who created the Seder several thousand years ago understood that it had to be more than just speaking: that in order for something to connect so emotionally in human beings, it had to be relived.”