“The trouble with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and trying to put things in it.”

“The problem with having an open mind, of course, is that people will insist on coming along and putting things in it.”

“you have to come of age when it's your time. If you try to rush it or put it off, it only gets you into trouble.”

“All writing is garbage. People who come out of nowhere to try and put into words any part of what goes on in their minds are pigs. ”

“We want to be open-minded enough to accept radical new ideas when they occasionally come along, but we don't want to be so open-minded that our brains fall out.”

“Like many young men in the South, he had trouble ruling out the possible. They are not like an immigrant's son in Passaic who desires to become a dentist and that is that. Southerners have trouble ruling out the possible. What happens to a... man to whom all things seem possible and every course of action open? Nothing of course.”