Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?

It's a terrible waste to be happy and not notice it.

His mother understood my illness immediately, that it was my world rather than myself that was diseased.

And Lot's wife, of course, was told not to look back where all those people and their homes had been. But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned into a pillar of salt. So it goes.

One of [ways being lucky] was to go to school during the Great Depression because teaching became a plum job.

How important my books are or anybody's books are, I don't know. I don't think they are terribly important I think that they make people contented during the period they are reading them and this is worth something is to take care of somebody for a couple of hours.

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!