“A good book is never finished—-it goes on whispering to you from the wall.”

“If you want something to grow and be so beautiful you could have a nice day just from looking at it, you have to wait.”

“Fiction must stick to facts, and the truer the facts the better the fiction — so we are told.”

“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.”

“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?”

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

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