Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Because we grew up surrounded by big dramatic story arcs in books and movies, we think our lives are supposed to be filled with huge ups and downs. So people pretend there is drama where there is none.

He wanted to talk to them, if he could, to discover whether they had truths about life which he had never heard before. Here is what he hoped new truths might do for him: enable him to laugh at his troubles, to go on living, and to keep out of the North Wing of the Midland County General Hospital, which was for lunatics.

Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile.

There's almost nothing like native Midwesterner anywhere else in the world, except in Asia. They're miracles all in themselves.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Freud said he didn't know what women wanted. I know what women want. They want a whole lot of people to talk to.