“If he says jump, she doesn't even ask "How high?" She goes out and buys a pogo stick.”

“And just as he said that a feminist jumped out of a manhole - just jumped up and oh, and she didn't like that.”

“So, there was this beautiful princess.
She was locked in a high tower(…)She was stuck up there(…)So the only thing was to jump.”

“It was offered to me. When Spielberg says jump, bitches say how high?”

“She had said she was afraid of Perry, and she was, but was it simply Perry she feared, or was it a configuration of which he was part […]? The eldest, the brother she loved, had shot himself; Fern had fallen out of a window, or jumped; and Perry was committed to violence, a criminal.”

“That morning she pours Teacher's over my belly and licks it off. That afternoon she tries to jump out the window.”

“The word Styx got her [Mrs. O'Leary, the hellhound] excited. She probably thought I meant sticks. She jumped a few times,, and then calmed down enough for me to push Nico onto her back.”

“Just leave her alone. You're annoying her.'
'I'm not annoying her. She doesn't even know how to be annoyed. She's, what, a week old?'
'She's three months.'
'She's three months in our years, but what is she in baby years?”

“She never said, "No, don't buy that trash," or "Pick a real book." She knew they were all real books. This is how great a librarian she was. And how great a mom.”

“OK, you trained monkeys, everybody jump up and down. Let's bring back the good old pogo!”