All the other children at my school are stupid. Except I'm not meant to call them stupid, even though this is what they are.

And Father said, "Christopher, do you understand that I love you?"
And I said "Yes," because loving someone is helping them when they get into trouble, and looking after them, and telling them the truth, and Father looks after me when I get into trouble, like coming to the police station, and he looks after me by cooking meals for me, and he always tells me the truth, which means that he loves me.

And this shows that sometimes people want to be stupid and they do not want to know the truth.

A boy becomes an adult three years before his parents think he does, and about two years after he thinks he does.

When we know as much about people as hog specialists know about hogs, we'll be better off.

Between a fellow who is stupid and honest and one who is smart and crooked, I will take the first. I won't get much out of him, but with that other guy I can't keep what I've got.