Did you ever get fed up?' I said. 'I mean did you ever get scared that everything was going to go lousy unless you did something?

People never notice anything.

Don't hate me because I can't remember some person immediately. Especially when they look like everybody else, and talk and dress and act like everybody else.

If there is an amateur reader still left in the world - or anybody who just reads and runs - I ask him or her, with untellable affection and gratitude, to split the dedication of this book four ways with my wife and children.

All morons hate it when you call them a moron.

It was just terrible! And the worst part was, I knew what a bore I was being, I knew how I was depressing people, or even hurting their feelings- but I just couldn't stop! I just could not stop picking!

I'm known as a strange, aloof kind of man. But all I'm doing is trying to protect myself and my work.