We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful about what we pretend to be.
Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand.
The only proof he needed for the existence of God was music.
And Lot’s wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man got to sit and wonder ‘why, why, why?’ Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man got to tell himself he understand.
To be is to do – Socrates To do is to be – Sartre Do Be Do Be Do – Sinatra.
Anyway – because we are readers, we don’t have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next – and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything from aardvarks to zucchinis – at any time of night or day.
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies.
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.