“Liberal, shmiberal. That should be a new word. Shmiberal: one who is assumed liberal, just because he's a professional whiner in the newspaper. If you'll read the subtext for many of those old strips, you'll find the heart of an old-fashioned Libertarian. And I'd be a Libertarian, if they weren't all a bunch of tax-dodging professional whiners.”

“And just as it is with all proper grannies, she ordered me into my pink bunny jammies.”

“Some of us find our lives abridged even before the paperback comes out. ”

“Just the usual formality before the chaos begins. Like playing the National Anthem before a Cubs game.”

“Now, I take full blame for all that came next. For I continued the story...but departed the text.”

“I will go to my grave in a state of abject endless fascination that we all have the capacity to become emotionally involved with a personality that doesn't exist.”

“Neither knew it at the time, but a line had been crossed that could not be uncrossed- a running leap over a chasm of ignorance and misunderstanding between species and worlds...and a baby step taken into life's endless possibilities for wonder and joy and surprise that could no more be reversed than one's first taste of chocolate.A dog kiss.”