Tricker the Squirrel is the best piece I ever wrote. It's intricate.

There are going to be times when we can't wait for somebody. Now, you're either on the bus or off the bus.

If you're a Conservative, why aren't you behind conserving the land?

The stars up close to the moon were pale; they got brighter and braver the farther they got out of the circle of light ruled by the giant moon

Take what you can use and let the rest go by.

All I know is this: nobody's very big in the first place, and it looks to me like everybody spends their whole life tearing everybody else down.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.