“The crazy part of my mind is like a mischievous pet I have to keep watch over or it might behave badly while I'm not paying attention.”

“Why does it scare me to think I might be ordinary? I remember when I started first grade and I could hardly pay attention for fear I wouldn't learn to read and write. I didn't want to be like everyone else. I didn't want to have to learn. I wanted to know everything already”

“Our job on earth, as I see it, is to hold on through the hard parts and try and be a good person.”

“I've been praying to Jesus and the Holy Ghost for patience and I have also mentioned that it would help if I did not have frizzy hair.”

“I'm riding you with a slack rein, my pet, but don't forget that I'm riding with curb and spurs just the same.”

“Toast is when you take a piece of bread—What is bread? Bread is when you take some flour—What is flour? We’ll skip that part, it’s too complicated. Bread is something you can eat, made from a ground-up plant and shaped like a stone. You cook it... Please, why do you cook it? Why don’t you just eat the plant? Never mind that part—Pay attention. You cook it, and then you cut it into slices, and you put a slice into a toaster, which is a metal box that heats up with electricity—What is electricity? Don’t worry about that. While the slice is in the toaster, you get out the...”

“My pet, the world can forgive practically anything except people who mind their own business" - Rhett Butler”