“From John Vorhaus's character Vic Mirplo in The Albuquerque Turkey: Procrastinate later.”

“You might think she just liked the cut of my jib, but I’ve seen my jib and I’m here to tell you it’s not cut that cute.”

“I wonder if the truth comes off people like an aura or an odor. You don't have to know them to know them, ya know?”

“The trouble with you, Vic," he said, "is that you think of the world as a sort of huge museum with too many visitors allowed in.”

“All procrastinators put off things they have to do. Structured procrastination is the art of making this negative trait work for you. The key idea is that procrastinating does not mean doing absolutely nothing. Procrastinators seldom do absolutely nothing; they do marginally useful things, such as gardening or sharpening pencils or making a diagram of how they will reorganize their files when they get around to it. Why does the procrastinator do these things? Because they are a way of not doing something more important. If all the procrastinator had left to do was to sharpen some pencils, no force on earth could get him to do it. The procrastinator can be motivated to do difficult, timely, and important tasks, however, as long as these tasks are a way of not doing something more important.”

“If and perhaps.... The language of procrastination and uncertainty. That's just people looking to justify their own lack of action.”

“Americans Never Quit. We never surrender. We never hide from history. We Make History.-John McCain”