Quotes by : John Knowles

Why talk about something you can't do anything about?

I was beginning to see that Phineas could get away with anything. I couldn't help envying him that a....

...his jaw tightening and his eyes closed on the tears. “I believe you. It’s okay because I understand....

Phineas created an atmosphere in which I continued now to live, a way of sizing up the world with erratic....

Teenagers today are more free to be themselves and to accept themselves.

There are special, strange gifted people in the world and they have to be treated with understanding

All of them, all except Phineas, constructed at infinite cost to themselves these Maginot Lines against....

Once again I had the desolating sense of having all along ignored what was finest in him. Perhaps it....

Phineas didn't really dislike West Point in particular or authority in general, but just considered authority....

Most of the students there, he said, don't know what they think. You tell 'em, they'll think it. I plan....