“Children picking up our bones
Will never know that these were once
As quick as foxes on the hill;”

“Quick, how do you pick up a cat?"
"Buy her a drink.”

“Children at once accept joy and happiness with quick familiarity, being themselves naturally all happiness and joy.”

“4872. There is a Bone for you to pick.”

“Freedom is never more than one generation away from extinction. We didn't pass it to our children in the bloodstream. It must be fought for, protected, and handed on for them to do the same, or one day we will spend our sunset years telling our children and our children's children what it was once like in the United States where men were free.”

“The loveliest girl in Vienna
Was Alma, the smartest as well.
Once you picked her up on your antenna,
You'd never be free of her spell.”

“An order was given to set up a pillar of pagan heads on the … hill between which and our camp the battle had been fought. (…) About 1000 men, women and children were made prisoner; there as also great slaughter, and a pillar of heads was raised.”

“Somewhere out there you are still
running up that hill,
we never got off the ground,
but still we were something real.”

“Up on Housing Project Hill, it's either fortune or fame. You must pick one or the other, though neither of them are to be what they claim.”

“I never exert pressure on my children: I encourage the children, Katija and Rahima, to pursue their dreams. Rahima is embarrassed by autograph-seekers and doesn't want me to visit her school. In fact, I have never attended a single PTA meeting or gone to pick up the report cards of my children.”