She is pure Alice in Wonderland, and her appearance and demeanor are a nicely judged mix of the Red Queen and a Flamingo. - Truman Capote

Shoot, boy, the country's just fulla folks what knows everything, and don't understand nothing, just fullofem.

Aprils have never meant much to me, autumns seem that season of beginning, spring.

all his prayers of the past had been simple concrete requests: God, give me a bicycle, a knife with seven blades, a box of oil paints. Only how, how, could you say something so indefinite, so meaningless as this: God, let me be loved.