“I don't see myself as a famous person.”

“I think people take a liking to a voice or something that makes them smile and feel good about themselves.”

“Though there had yet to be a victor in this great war that had begun almost three years ago, Maurice had written to her that they had, all of them, on all sides, lost their freedom. Freedom to thin...”

“Then I thought, boy, isn't that just typical? You wait and wait and wait for something, and then when it happens, you feel sad.”

“I'm living under water. Everything seems slow and far away. I know there's a world up there, a sunlit quick world where time runs like dry sand through an hourglass, but down here, where I am, air ...”

“I love California, I practically grew up in Phoenix.”

“If I was invincible, maybe I would take up some extreme sports.”

“When I was 12, all I wanted for Christmas was a trampoline or a four-wheeler. I ended up getting both presents for Christmas.”

“The time to hesitate is through.”

“A little credulity helps one on through life very smoothly.”