Science never cheered up anyone. The truth about the human situation is just too awful.

I didn't know then what a sperm was, and so wouldn't understand his answer for several years. "My boy," he said, "you are descended from a long line of determined, resourceful, microscopic tadpoles-- champions every one.

People don't come to church for preachments, of course, but to daydream about God.

Of all the words of mice and men, the saddest are, "It might have been.

I'm wild again, beguiled again, a whimpering, simpering child again. Bewitched, bothered, bewildered am I.

Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.

Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.