“Now, of cause like all real-life experience storie, this also begins once a polly tito.”

“Things in life have no real beginning, though our stories about them always do.”

“This true difference in me now: I had these experiances, these tales, more of this life. So maybe it wasn't the fairy tale. But those stories weren't real anyway. Mine were.”

“It was like the beginning of life and laughter. It was the real meaning of the sun”

“It is not my purpose to attempt a real autobiography. I simply want to tell the story of my experiments with truth…as my life consists of nothing but those experiments.”

“Once upon a time – for that is how all stories should begin – there was a boy who lost his mother.”

“Writing a story or a novel is one way of discovering sequence in experience, of stumbling upon cause and effect in the happenings of a writer's own life.”

“Polly: Education with socialists, it's like sex, all right as long as you don't have to pay for it.”

“This is a story about a man named Eddie and it begins at the end, with Eddie dying in the sun. It might seem strange to start a story with an ending. But all endings are also beginnings. We just don't know it at the time.”

“I will describe my eyes and then begin the story. My eyes are blue and resplendent. Now I will begin the story.”