“If you ask me what remains to be known in the future, Ill say, Memorize all the worlds encyclopedias. Once you do that, forget all that fancy junk and rake the leaves else Im gonna take a stick to...”

“Someone told me once, Its time to get you a pair of overalls, boy. But I dont believe in summing up nothin I let my experiences speak for themselves and even if I did, a synopsis should be singul...”

“I dont want the finer things in life, like preserves of jam and thick soft quilts, until I get what I need: the machinery to make that stuff for me.”

“No one knows who they are more than someone who changes their identity (before I became a farmer, I was a leadership coach).”

“The nose cant help catchin what the ears get sick with. Yessir, rock bands just sweat evil. Evils been around for a long time, ever since rocks started getting real hot and making a lot of noise as...”

“The thing about the black market is, its racist. White children make useful slaves, too.”

“One ought to hold on to one's heart; for if one lets it go, one soon loses control of the head too.”

“Everybody has a home team: Its the people you call when you get a flat tire or when something terrible happens. Its the people who, near or far, know everything thats wrong with you and love you an...”

“The more you condemn yourself for thinking or feeling a certain way, the more you feel stuck within your own body and mind.. What if you went the other way and embraced it so totally that it was as...”

“All I'd ever wanted was to forget. but even when I thought I had, pieces had kept emerging, like bits of wood floating up to the surface that only hint at the shipwreck below.”

“And perhaps it is the greater grief, after all, to be left on earth when another is gone.”

“I hate quotations. Tell me what you know.”