“When you little, you only get asked two questions, what’s your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”

“Her nose wrinkle up cause now she got to remember to say she Mae Mobley Three, when her whole life she can remember, she been telling people she Mae Mobley Two. When you little, you only get asked two questions, what's your name and how old you is, so you better get em right.”

“When you're a writer, the question people always ask you is, "Where do you get your ideas?" Writers hate this question. It's like asking Humphrey Bogart in The African Queen, "Where do you get your leeches?" You don't get ideas. Ideas get you.”

“Your life only gets better when you get better.”

“When something happens to you, you have two choices in how to deal with it. You can either get bitter, or get better.”

“Science is wonderfully equipped to answer the question “how?” but it gets terribly confused when you ask the question “why?”