“Sometimes, I think Bill forgets that I am sixteen. But I am very happy that he does.”

“Sometimes I am happy and sometimes not. I am, after all, a human being, you know. And I am glad that we are sometimes happy and sometimes not. You get your wisdom working by having different emotions.”

“You want me to say something? Okay. Sometimes I think I am what you made me. And sometimes I don’t know who I am at all. And either way I’m not happy.”

“Sometime I think; and sometime I am.”

“I still forget, sometimes, that I am no longer 12 years old.”

“I am not proud, but I am happy; and happiness blinds, I think, more than pride.”

“I think I am mad sometimes.”

“It sometimes happens and will sometimes happen again that I forget who I am and strut before my eyes, like a stranger.”

“I am billed as a humorist, but of course I am a tragedian at heart.”

“Sometimes I think,” he told Tex, “that Th’Wing thinks that I am an idiot studying hard to become a moron—but flunking the course.”