Status Updates From Wampeters, Foma and Granfal...

"When I think about my own death, I don't console myself with the idea that my descendants and my books and all that will live on. Anybody with any sense knows that the whole solar system will go up like a celluloid collar by-and-by. I honestly believe, though, that we are wrong to think that moments go away, never to be seen again. This moment and every moment lasts forever."

"So, maybe, the Secretary of Defense would be friendly about my pacifism and all that, and I would be expected to be friendly about the end of the world and all that."

"There was no kindly English professor to tell me for my own good how awful my writing really was. And there was no professor with the power to order me what to read, either."

"Diving into her mind, I gathered, was about as much fun as dogpaddling across Cleveland's Cuyahoga River."

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"I can see where influential people would like Maharishi better than Jesus. My God, if The Beatles and Mia Farrow went to Jesus, He'd tell 'em to give all their money away."