I'm a doctor of cowshit, pigshit, and chickenshit.....when you doctors figure out what you want, you'll find me out in the barn shoveling my thesis.

She hated people who thought too much. At that moment, she struck me as an appropriate representative for almost all mankind.

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

Be fruitful, and multiply.

[Ayres] was our city because we were building it. That's how I felt when I walked around town.

There is this thing called the university, and everybody goes there now. And there are these things called teachers who make students read this book with good ideas or that book with good ideas until that's where we get our ideas. We don't think them; we read them in books. I like Utopian talk, speculation about what our planet should be, anger about what our planet is. I think writers are the most important members of society, not just potentially but actually. Good writers must have and stand by their own ideas.

God damn it, you've got to be kind.