What good is a planet called Earth, after all, if you own no land?

It strikes me as gruesome and comical that in our culture we have an expectation that man can always solve his problems ... This is so untrue that it makes me want to cry-or laugh.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

Now, the engineers and managers believe with all their hearts the glorious things their forebears hired people to say about them. Yesterday's snow job becomes today's sermon.

The heartbreaking necessity of lying about reality and the heartbreaking impossibilty of lying about it

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

I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.