"I was sitting with my mother, helping her boil water. I had found kindling and was feeding the fire, and she was approving of the help I was providing. It was unusual for a boy of any age to be as helpful as I was. There is an intimacy between mother and son, a son of six or seven. At that age a boy can still be a boy, can be weak and melt into his mother's arms. For me, though, this is the last time, for tomorrow I will not be a boy. I will be something else--an animal desperate only to survive. I know I cannot turn back and so I savor these days, these moments when I can be small, can do small favors, can crawl beneath my mother and blow on the dinner fire. I like to think I was luxuriating in the final moment of childhood when the sound came."

                     --David Eggers, What is the What, 2007

"THAT'S GREAT, EDDIE! MAYBE YOU CAN HELP US FIND A CERTAIN RUNAWAY KID...NAME OF KEN MATTHEWS! HIS PARENTS CONTACTED US AND ASKED FOR OUR HELP! HERE'S HIS PHOTO...!"
"HMMM, CAN'T SAY I'VE GLIMMED HIM AROUND HERE! BUT LET THE OLD GURU BECOME ONE WITH THE GREAT, GROOVY MARMALADE SKIES AND MAYBE I CAN GET A CLUE!"

                     --Bob Haney, TEEN TITANS, Vol. 1, No. 15, 
                            "Captain Rumble Blasts the Scene!," 1968