Feel Good About Linking Hands

After That [father's Death] I Never Cried With Any Real Conviction, Nor Expected Much Of Anyone's God Except Indifference, Nor Loved Deeply Without Fear That It Would Cost Me Dearly In Pain. At The Age Of Five I Had Become A Skeptic And Began To Sense That Any Happiness That Came My Way Might Be The Prelude To Some Grim Cosmic Joke.

The Goal Of All Inanimate Objects Is To Resist Man And Ultimately Defeat Him.

Grass Is The Least Rewarding Of All Status Symbols... The Grass Does Nothing But Drink Money, Exhaust Energies, Crush Spirits, Destroy Sleep, Create Tensions And Interfere With The Watching Of Baseball Games, And Sprout Insolent Signs Ordering Humans To Keep Off It.

Every Day And In Every Way, Baseball Gets Fancier. A Few More Years And They'll Be Playing On Oriental Rugs.

I Am Sitting Here 93 Million Miles From The Sun On A Rounded Rock Which Is Spinning At The Rate Of 1000 Miles An Hour... And My Head Pointing Down Into Space With Nothing Between Me And Infinity But Something Called Gravity Which I Can't Even Understand, And Which You Can't Even Buy Any Place So As To Have Some Stored Away For A Gravityless Day.