“Yes,but the news is no different from the drunk in the corner bar:he might have a good story, but that doesn't maen you can trust it.”

“We also have noses that run and feet that smell.Sometimes the universe just doesn't make sense.”

“Parades ain't for the people on the floats, they're for the ones watching it go by.”

“Is this how you repay my goodness--with badness?” cried the boy. “Of course,” said the crocodile out of the corner of his mouth. “That is the way of the world.”

“Do you realize you're talking to yourself?Yes.It's good that you know the difference.”

“Parents always forgive you. Like sometimes, you see parents on the news, and their kid just got busted for murdering a 7-11 clerk, and they're like, 'But my Bubba's a good boy. He'd never hurt a fly.' So I'm sure your parents would forgive you for whatever you did.”

“In stories like Cinderella and Beauty and the Beast, they always say the heroine is 'as good as she is beautiful.' I wondered if people just wanted that to be true, wanted the beautiful to be good. I wondered if they wanted the ugly to be bad because then they wouldn't have to feel bad for them.”