“I'm a beast, I am, and a Badger what's more. We don't change. We hold on.”

“I'm as proud of what we don't do as I am of what we do.”

“Then I'm sorry I don't remember more. If we kew a person was going to die, we'd hold harder to the memories.”

“Well, I'm more lopsided than a one-legged badger.”

“I am learning to see. I don't know why it is, but everything enters me more deeply and doesn't stop where it once used to. I have an interior that I never knew of... What's the use of telling someone that I am changing? If I'm changing, I am no longer who I was; and if I am something else, it's obvious that I have no acquaintances. And I can't possibly write to strangers.”

“The older I get, the more I realize that what other people think about me has little to do with who I am. … We can’t change other people, and we can’t force them to see us the way we would like to be seen.”