“Let me fly with you.”

“I didn't know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of the throat and I'd cry for a week.”

“Let me not be sentimental, let the distance in time give me humor and irony and a shrewd, if loving, eye.”

“I didn’t want my picture taken because I was going to cry. I didn’t know why I was going to cry, but I knew that if anybody spoke to me or looked at me too closely the tears would fly out of my eyes and the sobs would fly out of my throat and I’d cry for a week. I could feel the tears brimming and sloshing in me like water in a glass that is unsteady and too full.”

“let me live, love, and say it well in good sentences”

“Let me sit in a flowerpot,The spiders won't notice. My heart is a stopped geranium.”

“Don't let the wicked city get you down.”