Be patient. Your future will come to you and lie down at your feet like a dog who knows and loves you no matter what you are.

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

The things other people have put into my head, at any rate, do not fit together nicely, are often useless and ugly, are out of proportion with one another, are out of proportion with life as it really is outside my head.

How embarrassing to be human.

Those who live by electronics die by electronics. Sic semper tyrannis.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.