“I am only 8 years old, I told myself. No little boy of 8 has ever murdered anyone. It's not possible.”

“What a fortunate fellow I am, I kept telling myself. Nobody has ever had such a lovely time as this!”

“Perhaps it's chasing me. But I don't think it will ever catch me because I am moving fast.”

“Titchy little snapperwhippers like you should not be higgling around with an old sage and onions who is hundreds of years more than you.”

“I've always said to myself that if a little pocket calculator can do it why shouldn't I?”

“A person is a fool to become a writer. His only compensation is absolute freedom. He has no master except his own soul, and that, I am sure, is why he does it”

“I think I have this thing where everybody has to think I'm the greatest.And if they aren't completely knocked out and dazzled and slightly intimidated by me, I don't feel good about myself.”