It was headquartered in Michigan City, a long way off. I never saw Ku Klux Klan march.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

What is flirtatiousness but an argument that life must go on and on and on?

I just know that there are plenty of people who are in terrible trouble and can't get out. And so I'm impatient with those who think that it's easy for people to get out of trouble.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

God Almighty Himself must have been hilarious when human beings so mingled iron and water and fire as to make a railroad train!

A story has to be a good date, because the reader can stop at any time. Remember, readers are selfish and have no compulsion to be decent about anything.