“My own prescription for health is less paperwork and more running barefoot through the grass.”

“Her Dream Prince, Gee Gee, was, then, and of course still might be, though I'd always thought of a Dream Prince as having more hair and less avoirdupois.”

“I felt as though I was rushing into a burning building to discover the ideas I needed for my own life.”

“I know some words floated through my ears, but my mind refused to absorb their meaning. I just shook my head slowly as the wall of pain washed over me, leaving me submerged and broken in the flood.”

“More exists among human beings than can be answered by the simplistic question I'm hit with every day of my life: "Are you a man or a woman?”

“I got what I have now through knowing the right time to tell terrible people when to go to hell.”

“Surrendering is unimaginably more dangerous than struggling for survival.”