Richard Dreyfuss

"I never had any friends later on like the ones I had when I was twelve. Jesus, does anyone?"

"I was 12 going on 13 first time I saw a dead human being."

"But only if you measure in terms of years."

"I was living in a small town in Oregon called Castle Rock."

"There were only 1281 people, but to me it was the whole world."

""No trespassing" was enforced by Milo Pressman, the junkman, and his dog, Chopper, the most feared and least seen dog in Castle Rock."

"Legend had it that Milo had trained Chopper, not just to sic, but to sic specific parts of the human anatomy."

"Thus, a kid, who had illegally scaled the junkyard fence, might hear the dread cry, "Chopper, sic balls.""

"But right now, neither the dread, Chopper, nor Milo was anywhere in sight."

"Vern didn't just mean being off limits inside the junkyard, or fudging on our folks, or going on a hike up the railroad tracks to Harlow."

"He meant those things, but it seems to me now it was more and that we all knew it."