I am a slow reader, and fast eater; I wish it were the other way around.

If someone is in a bad mood, tickling only makes it worse.

At the end of life, at the end of YOUR life, what essence emerges? What have you filled the world with? In remembering you, what words will others choose?

I wish I had eaten more rice cakes.

No one ever went to their deathbed saying, 'You know, I wish I'd eaten more rice cakes.

I have not survived against all odds. I have not lived to tell. I have not witnessed the extraordinary. This is my story.

If you want to grow up to be a big, strong pea, you have to eat your candy," Papa Pea would say.