A.T. Pope

“I tell you, we are here on Earth to fart around, and don't let anybody tell you different.”
― Kurt Vonnegut, A Man Without a Country

“I have had some experiences with love, or I think I have, anyway, although the ones I have liked best could easily be described as "common decency." I treated somebody well for a little while, or maybe even for a tremendously long time, and that person treated me well in turn. Love need not have had anything to do with it.
Also: I cannot distinguish between the love I have for people and the love I have for dogs.”
― Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Slapstick, or Lonesome No More!

“The life of sensation is the life of greed; it requires more and more. The life of the spirit requires less and less; time is ample and the passage is sweet.”
― Annie Dillard, The Writing Life

“You know, there is a cycle of imagining and desire, desire and death, death and birth, birth and imagining. And we have been tempted into its mouth. And it has swallowed us.”
― Denis Johnson, Tree of Smoke