Love is where you find it.

My country is in ruins. So I'm a fish in a poisoned fishbowl. I'm mostly just heartsick about this. There should have been hope. This should have been a great country. But we are despised all over the world now. I was hoping to build a country and add to its literature. That's why I served in World War II, and that's why I wrote books.

You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too.

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

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments.

The smartest people in Indianapolis became teachers [during the Great Depression]. And, for once, there was something for women to do because teaching was regarded as a woman's profession, like nursing. So the smartest women in town - Jesus, my women teachers were so exciting.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.