Carter Harvey

“While I was in Schenectady he joined the Dutch Reformed Church, which is a very tough church, indeed.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse-Five

“Even though there was nobody behind her, and nobody across from her, and anyone coming down the road could see that her only choices were to turn right or rise into the air like a dirigible, she had her turn signal blinking. She was E.V. Waring, without a doubt. There was no particular reason to switch the signal on, but no particular reason not to, and it made more sense to use up one ten-thousandth of the life of a forty-cent bulb than to surprise a pedestrian she hadn’t seen. The engraving should have said, “E. V. Waring, No Fool.”
― Thomas Perry, Sleeping Dogs

“the sort of books that cost too much unless you got them free.”
― Thomas Perry, Metzger's Dog

“Evolution can go to hell as far as I am concerned. What a mistake we are. We have mortally wounded this sweet life-supporting planet - the only one in the whole Milky Way - with a century of transportation whoopee.”
― Kurt Vonnegut