Some people are boys longer than others.

Intelligent men are dangerous.

Small boys were a mystery to Sylvie. The satisfaction they gained from throwing sticks or stones for hours on end, the obsessive collection of inanimate objects, the brutal destruction of the fragile world around them, all seemed at odds with the men they were supposed to become.

The difference between the men and the boys in politics is, and always has been, that the boys want to be something, while the men want to do something,

Better to build schoolrooms for the boys than prison and gallows for the men

He didn't say anything more, just waited for me to tell him what I'd been thinking. It was pure speculation, and I was opening myself up to ridicule by saying anything at all. I sat on the stool and realized that I had my loyalties, too.