“. . . and Vaclav's special new shoes with the lights on the heels and the Velcro everywhere, because in America no one, not even small children, has time to tie his own shoes, and everything must have flashing lights.”
“One has got to cope with the life, said the mountain man tying shoe with an earthworm”
“I have never been with an ugly woman!” he argues.“You’ve never been with one that can tie her own shoe laces either”
“She was dull, unattractive, couldn't tell the time, count money or tie her own shoe laces... But I loved her”
“So I’m into men now, even though they can be frightening. I want a schedule-keeping, waking-up-early, wallet-carrying, non-Velcro-shoe-wearing man.”
“The Human Species could have been great but instead we became satisfied with lights on our tennis shoes.”