“They’re serious” “Well I hope so, they are getting married”
“Well, Ben says you have to be married to get a girl pregnant. And me and Cindy are not married, so she couldn't get pregnant, see?”
“Whenever a young thing wants to be free minus serious thought, she gets pregnant and then gets married. Voilà!”
“Why are they so sad?” I asked.“Well, they’re dead,” Carter speculated.”
“I sell Ziploc bags. They’re not empty—they’re full of hope.”
“I've never really had any luck with women in my life. Well, at first I was fairly lucky. Then all of a sudden, they all thought they had to get married for some reason. And not to me. It's especially strange, because I almost always fell in love with the very smart girls. Even that didn't help matters. I don't see how any intelligent person could seriously want to get married.”