The frontiers we broke into in the '60s are still largely unexplored.

I've enjoyed being a famous writer-except that every once in a while you have to write something.

You're making sense, old man, a sense of your own. You're not crazy the way they think. Yes...I see.

They can't tell so much about you if you got your eyes closed.

The Republican consciousness has no integrity and it falls apart once you check it out. If you're a Christian, why would you want to fry this dude?

You don't plow under the corn because the seed was planted with a neighbor's shovel.

I lay in bed the night before the fishing trip and thought it over, about my being deaf, about the years of not letting on I heard what was said, and I wonder if I can ever act any other way again. But I remembered one thing: it wasn't me that started acting deaf; it was people that first started acting like I was too dumb to hear or see or say anything at all.