I just want someone to hear what I have to say. And maybe if I talk long enough, it’ll make sense.

How do you get so empty? he wondered. Who takes it out of you?

I always figured we were born to fly, one way or other, so I couldn't stand most men shuffling along with all the iron of the earth in their blood. I never met a man who weighed less than nine hundred pounds.

Marriage made people old and familiar, while still young.

I don't understand this whole thing about computers and the superhighway. Who wants to be in touch with all of those people?

Disbelief is catching. It rubs off on people.

I discovered very early on that if you wanted a thing, you went for it - and you got it. Most people never go anywhere, or want anything - so they never get anything.

Once the automobile appeared you could have predicted that it would destroy as many people as it did.

I don't like the kind of writer who's out to change the world and beat up on people for their own good. Stalin did that and Hitler did that, and to hell with them.