What scared me the most was when my father would put on the gasmask. His face would disappear... This was not a human being at all.

You have to be with other people, he thought. In order to live at all. I mean before they came here I could stand it... But now it has changed. You can't go back, he thought. You can't go from people to nonpeople." - J.R. Isidore

All responsible writers, to some degree, have become involuntary criers of doom, because doom is in the wind

Each of us assumes everyone else knows what he is doing. They all assume we know what we are doing. We don't.

No matter how long a log stays in the water, it doesn't become a crocodile.

In a sense, the better you adapt to school the less your chances are of later adapting to the actual world. So I figure, the worse you adapt to school, the better you will be able to handle reality when you finally manage to get loose at last from school, if that ever happens. But I guess I have what in the military they call a 'poor attitude,' which means 'shape up or ship out.' I always elected to ship out.

A man is an angel that has gone deranged.