"Babies are born with neither good nor bad character. Normal people - as they grow, learn and are trained - develop better or worse dispositions and habits of conduct."

“The good stories, of course, write themselves. And somebody wants to know who are the really good writers, and how many of them there are. There aren't any. Most of the writers are likeable frauds. Some are unlikable frauds.”

Source : "It's Down the Slippery Cellar Stairs". Book by R. A. Lafferty, 1995.

“Is there no end to this escalation of desire?”

“What people call serendipity sometimes is just having your eyes open,”

“The mystery of history is an insoluble problem.”

“William Bennett is my patron saint, one of them. Redd Foxx is another.”

“On Election Day, Ralph Nader will appear on the presidential ballot in only 45 states. Yeah, Nader said, this is really disappointing, I wanted to embarrass myself in all 50 states. That was the plan.”

“Columbus's eggs lie around by the hundreds of thousands, but Columbuses are met with less frequency.”

“Design must be an innovative, highly creative, cross-disciplinary tool responsive to the needs of men. It must be more research-oriented, and we must stop defiling the earth itself with poorly-designed objects and structures.”