“My toaster could have a soul,and the walnut grove to the east of my house could be just a bunch of trees or could be made from the atoms of Elvis or Mussolini.Why not?”
“I could tell that my parents hated me. My bath toys were a toaster and a radio.”
“However, neither he nor anyone else could have become the star Elvis was. Ain't nobody like Elvis. Never was.”
“Selling my soul would be a lot easier if I could just find it.”
“I found I could extinguish all human hope from my soul.”
“My full name is Lauren Lee Smith. Of all the names I could have been given, that's the one I got. Lauren Lee Smith. It has all the personality of a toaster.”