...Skyscraper National Park

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.

The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

[I write] intuitively, reflexively, as if skiing down a steep mountain slope with no time to think.

She was a fool, and so am I, and so is anyone who thinks he sees what God is Doing, [writes Bokonon].

I said I wasn't interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn't really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

Well, we are terribly divided politically, yes, and, you know, I don't mean to intimidate you and your listeners but I have a master's degree in anthropology from the University of Chicago.