Bill Geist > Quotes

“What right does it have, death? When I meet it, I’ll give it the finger. Best I can do.”
― Bill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America

“Most, perhaps all, of us were from middle-class families and trying to pay our way through college. Waitresses could clear from $1,000 to $1,500 for the summer, bellhops $800 or so. Now this may not seem like a lot, but at the University of Illinois in the sixties my tuition for a semester was—parents, do not commit hara-kiri—$135.”
― Bill Geist, Lake of the Ozarks: My Surreal Summers in a Vanishing America