" It's a very mixed blessing to be brought
back from the dead. "

" People don't come to church for
preachment of course but daydream
about God. "

" I tell you, we are here on Earth to
fart around, and don't let anybody
tell you different. "

" Be careful what you pretend to be
because you are what you pretend
to be. "

" I want to stand as close to the edge
as I can without going over. Out on the
edge you see all the kind of things you
can't see from the center. "

" Here we are trapped in the amber of
the moment. There is no why. "

" Still and all, why bother? Here's my
answer. Many people need desperately
to receive this message: I feel and think
much as you do, care about many of the
things you care about, although most
people don't care about them. You are
not alone. "

" To whom it may concern: It is springtime.
It is late afternoon. "

" One of the few good things about modern
times: If you die horribly on television, you
will not have died in vain. You will have
entertained us. "

" Here is a lesson in creative wtiting. First
rule: Do not use semicolons. They are
transvestite hermaphrodites representing
absolutely nothing. All they do is show
you've been to collage. "

" Humor is an almost physiological
response to fear. "

"Another flaw in the human character
is that everybody wants to build and
nobody wants to maintenance. "

" All time is all time. It does not change.
It does not lend itself to warnings or
explanations. It simply is. Take it
moment by moment, and you will find
that we are all, as I've said before, bugs
in amber. "

" How nice - to feel nothing, and still
get full credit of being alive. "

" If you would be unloved and forgotten,
be reasonable. "

" And Lot's wife, of course, was told not
to look back where all those people and
their homes had been. But she did look
back, and I love her for that, because it
was so human. So she was turned to
a pillar of salt. So it goes. "

" Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly; Man
got to sit and wonder, " Why, why, why ? "
Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land; Man
got to tell himself he understand. "

" Since Alice had never received any
religious instruction, and since she
had led a blameless life, she never
thought of her awful luck as being
anything but accidents in a very
busy place. Good for her. "