“If you dont like me, Walk away , Matter of fact Run Away”

“You ever laughed so hardnobody in the world could hurt you for a minute,no matter what they tried to do to you?”

“I sure would like to get kissed.How would that feel on my mouth,How different would I be after,a changed climate down in my insides?”

“You get olderand you are a whole mess of things,new thoughts, sorry feelings,big plans, enormous doubts,goling along hoping and getting disappointed,over and over again,no wonder I don't recognizemy little crayon picture.It appears to be meand it isand it is not.”

“I tell you this because books for young readers are so often written about that very moment: the moment of the fork. The moment the old man cannot return to.”

“Rise to the occassion which is life!”

“How many neighbors ignoring Jolly for her ignorance and bad luck could go down on their knees and save their kid from choking to death this afternoon while the world was going on outside in the sunshine?”