Henceforth letter-writing had to take the place of all the affection that could not be lived. - Thornton Wilder

I think that it can be assumed that no adults are ever really 'shocked' - that being shocked is always a pose.

The most exhausting of all our adventures is that journey down the long corridors of the mind to the last halls where belief is enthroned.

Some say that we shall never know, and that to the gods we are like the flies that the boys kill on a summer's day, and some say, to the contrary, that the very sparrows do not lose a feather that has not been brushed away by the finger of God.