“Meanings is not important, said the BFG. I cannot be right all the time. Quite often I is left instead of right.”

“What I mean and what I say is two different things," the BFG announced rather grandly.”

“I have no right to risk. No, that's not quite correct. I have no right to failure.”

“All right, that's pretty much all I got. The only thing I have left to do, for the last time on a television program: Thank you and good night.”

“It's hard to be the one always waiting. I mean, there's something to be said for the hero who charges off to battle, but when you get right down to it there's a whole story in who's left behind.”

“I went left, he went left. I went right, he went right. I went left again, he went to buy a hot dog.”

“To you I shall say, as I have often said before, Do not be in a hurry, the right man will come at last…”

“Because the most important thing any man can do in all his life is pick the right woman to breed with—I mean, marry first, then breed, because from the woman comes the—” “—comes the instinct to survive,” I said, having heard this for as long as I could remember. “Good,” said mi papa,”

“The matter with human beans," the BFG went on, "is that they is absolutely refusing to believe in anything unless they is actually seeing it right in front of their own schnozzles.”

“Anne Lamott’s priest friend Tom, how to get through:
"Left foot, right foot, left foot, breathe," he said. "Right foot, left foot, right foot, breathe."
Salon April 25, 2003”