Goose neck is a delicacy. You have to at least try it. In fancy restaurants people pay up to fifty dollars a plate for this stuff.' And at our house we were force-fed it for free. Just another irony of life.

Very often the lessons you learn are more important than the things you accomplish

You need to be more careful, or you could hurt yourself.

At first it upset me to realize how many people are, at heart, selfish. Now I take that in stride, but people's loneliness still gets to me.

Even the plants in Arizona wanted to hurt you.

The only things you can truly love after such a short time are ice cream flavors and comfortable shoes.

Beauty has a persuasive power all its own.