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

“Now that I am alone, I don't have to hide it; I don't have to hide anything any longer. I can let my face go because no one can see me; because there's twenty-one thousand feet between me and them... No, I don't have to press my teeth together or tighten the muscles of my jaw...”

“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.”

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

“All you do is to look / At a page in this book / Because that's where we always will be. / No book ever ends / When it's full of your friends / The Giraffe and the Pelly and me.”

“Badger: The cuss you are.Mr. Fox: The cuss am I? Are you cussing with me?”

“I cannot for the life of me understand why small children take so long to grow up. I think they do it deliberately, just to annoy me.”