Be careful what you say. It comes true. It comes true. I had to leave home in order to see the world logically, logic the new way of seeing. I learned to think that mysteries are for explanation. I enjoy the simplicity. Concrete pours out of my mouth to cover the forests with freeways and sidewalks. Give me plastics, periodical tables, TV dinners with vegetables no more complex than peas mixed with diced carrots. Shine floodlights into dark corners: no ghosts.

I'd like to go to New Society Village someday and find out exactly how far I can walk before people stop talking like me.

I may be ugly and clumsy, but one thing I'm not, I'm not retarded.

You must not tell anyone,' my mother said, 'what I am about to tell you.'

Any merchant who advertises 'Honest Scales' must have been thinking about weighing them.

There's something in life that's a curtain, and I keep trying to raise it.

Do the right thing by whoever crosses your path. Those coincidental people are your people.