“The new moon rode high in the crown of the metropolis. Shinin', like "Who on top of this?”

“It was the call of workers who organized; women who reached for the ballot; a President who chose the moon as our new frontier; and a King who took us to the mountain top and pointed the way to the Promised Land.Yes we can!”

“Such is life. We grow up. Planets like Tiny get new moons. Moons like me get new planets.”

“Well, there's a light in your eye that keeps shinin', like a star that can't wait for the night.”

“New Orleans is, on the other hand, a comfortable metropolis which has a certain apathy and stagnation which I find inoffensive.”

“It's a half-moon tonight and it's shinin' half-bright as if the sky could understand the way I feel inside-Half of me is livin' half a world from here, half of me is dyin', cryin' one lonely tear silently in the half-moon light Sparrow. Nothing will be completely right until you're with me.”