Christopher Moore: "Untuk beberapa saat dia mencoba membentuk dirinya...

"Untuk beberapa saat dia mencoba membentuk dirinya menjadi pahlawan Romantis yang tragis, merenung dan menatap ternganga ke luar angkasa saat dia menyusun syair gelap di kepalanya. Tetapi ternyata berusaha tampil tragis di Incontinence, Indiana, adalah mubazir, dan ibunya terus berteriak kepadanya dan membuatnya melupakan syairnya. "Tommy, jika kamu terus menggertakkan gigimu seperti itu, mereka akan luntur dan kamu harus memiliki gigi palsu seperti Bibi Ester." Tommy hanya berharap janggutnya seberat milik Bibi Ester --- maka dia bisa memandangi orang-orang Moor sementara dia mengusapnya dengan serius."

--- Christopher Moore

Versi Bahasa Inggris

For a while he'd tried molding himself into the tragic Romantic hero, brooding and staring clench-jawed off into space as he composed dark verse in his head. But it turned out that trying to appear tragic in Incontinence, Indiana, was redundant, and his mother kept shouting at him and making him forget his rhymes. "Tommy, if you keep grinding your teeth like that, they'll wear away and you'll have to have dentures like Aunt Ester." Tommy only wished his beard was as heavy as Aunt Ester's---then he could stare out over the moors while he stroked it pensively.