“I’m glad I don’t have any foreskin, because at a nude beach I’d feel overdressed. (It’d be the only time I could feel overdressed by showing too much skin).”

“My time at the pool went swimmingly. Better than a nude beach, because I was the only one who was naked.”

“You can never be overdressed or overeducated.”

“...if you are overdressed, it is a comment on them. If you are under dressed, it is a comment on you.”

“If I’d found out that Norman Mailer liked me, I’d have killed myself. I think he was too hung up. I’m glad Kurt Vonnegut didn’t like me either. He had problems, terrible problems. He couldn’t see the world the way I see it. I suppose I’m too much Pollyanna, he was too much Cassandra. Actually I prefer to see myself as the Janus, the two-faced god who is half Pollyanna and half Cassandra, warning of the future and perhaps living too much in the past—a combination of both. But I don’t think I’m too over optimistic.”

“I miss it if I’m not in it for any length of time; I don’t feel comfortable. I want trees and I want frequent rain.”