It makes people nervous for one to step out of one's role.

Boredom is the self being stuffed with itself.

This Midwestern sky is the nakedest loneliest sky in America. To escape it, people live inside and underground.

Why is it that one can look at a lion or a planet or an owl or at someone's finger as long as one pleases, but looking into the eyes of another person is, if prolonged past a second, a perilous affair?

A good title should be like a good metaphor. It should intrigue without being too baffling or too obvious.

I couldn't stand it. I still can't stand it. I can't stand the way things are. I cannot tolerate this age.

Whenever I feel bad, I go to the library and read controversial periodicals. Though I do not know whether I am a liberal or a conservative, I am nevertheless enlivened by the hatred which one bears the other. In fact, this hatred strikes me as one of the few signs of life remaining in the world.