“If I were invited to a dinner party with my characters, I wouldn't show up.”

“My trouble was I had a mind but I couldn't make it up!”

“My shoe is off. My foot is cold. I have a bird I like to hold.”

“I meant no harm I most truly did not, but I had to grow bigger so bigger I got. I biggered my factory, I biggered my roads, I biggered the wagons, I biggered the loads, of the Thneeds I shipped out I was shipping them forth from the South, to the East, to the West. To the North, I went right on biggering selling more thneeds. And I biggered my money which everyone needs.”

“I like nonsense, it wakes up the brain cells. Fantasy is a necessary ingredient in living.”

“I know, up on top you are seeing great sights, but down here at the bottom we, too, should have rights.”

“This is not good. This is not right. My feet stick out of bed all night. And when I pull them in, oh dear! My head sticks out of bed out here!”