The insane, on occasion, are not without their charms.
I couldn’t help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for – to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
My soul seemed as foul as smoke from burning cat fur.
He had supposed for years that he had no secrets from himself. Here was proof that he had a great big secret somewhere inside, and he could not imagine what it was.
Be fruitful, and multiply.
When I used to teach creative writing, I would tell the students to make their characters want something right away.
The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.
I found me a place where I can do good without doing any harm, and I can see I’m doing good, and them I’m doing good for know I’m doing it, and they love me, Unk, as best they can. I found me a home.
He had the air of a spy in a melodrama, missing nothing, liking nothing, looking forward to the great day when everything would be turned upside down.
My god-life! who can understand eve one little minute of it? ‘don’t try’ he said ’just pretend you understand.
How complicated and unpredictable the machinery of life really is.
In this world, you get what you pay for.
Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world’s total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it’s a very poor scheme for survival.
No good at life, but very funny sometimes with the commentary.
Make love when you can. It’s good for you.
If there really had been a Mercutio, and if there really were a Paradise, Mercutio might be hanging out with teenage Vietnam draftee casualties now, talking about what it felt like to die for other people’s vanity and foolishness.
My own feeling is that if adultery is wickedness then so is food. Both make me feel so much better afterward.
Montana was naked, and so was Billy, of course. He had a tremendous wang, incidentally. You never know who’ll get one.