I don't want my daughter to be educated. I think women should just be decorative.

Sometimes life is merely a matter of coffee and whatever intimacy a cup of coffee affords.

I believe I saw a woodcock. He had a long bill like putting a fire hydrant into a pencil sharpener, then pasting it onto a bird and letting the bird fly away in front of me with this thing on its face for no other purpose than to amaze me.

You've got some 'Star-Spangled' nails in your coffin, kid. That's what they've done for you, son.

In Watermelon Sugar the deeds were done and done again as my life is done in watermelon sugar.

There was something dead in my heart. I tried to figure out what it was by the strength of the smell. I knew that it was not a lion or a sheep or a dog. Using logical deduction, I came to the conclusion that it was a mouse. I had a dead mouse in my heart.

If you are thinking about something that happened a long time ago: Somebody asked you a question and you did not know the answer. That is my name.