“Don't worry whether or not I am now happy. Today is only chapter one, we have yet to write a book.”

“I can only take one step at a time, whether I am running or living. Today is a good day. This is my life and it's happening now.”

“I am so happy that I made someone cry today - don't worry I'm a writer. It's when they make me cry that it's a problem.”

“Today is my birthday. I am going to write a diry a diray a diery book. Pop told me I could. He gave me this fat book. It was a government book, but it is mine now.”

“I am transcribing a book that I have, in a sense, not yet written, and in another sense, have always written, and in another sense, am currently writing, and in another sense, am always writing, and in another sense, will never write.”

“Take care! I don't care. Don't you worry about me! I am as happy now as I have ever been, and that is saying a great deal. But the time has come. I am being swept off my feet at last”