Nine Stories

It's so silly," he said. «All you do is get the heck out of your body when you die. My gosh, everybody's done it thousands and thousands of times. Just because they don't remember it doesn't mean they haven't done it. It's so silly.

I never saw such a bunch of apple-eaters

«You know that apple Adam ate in the Garden of Eden, referred to in the Bible?» he asked. «You know what was in that apple? Logic. Logic and intellectual stuff.

That was all that was in it. So--this is my point--what you have to do is vomit it up if you want to see things as they really are. I mean if you vomit it up, then you won't have any more trouble with blocks of wood and stuff. You won't see everything stopping off all the time.

I mean they don't seem able to love us just the way we are. They don't seem able to love us unless they can keep changing us a little bit.

They love their reasons for loving us almost as much as they love us, and most of the time more. It's not so good, that way.

I have a very strong affinity for them.

Yes, sure, I love Him. But I don't love Him sentimentally. He never said anybody had to love Him sentimentally," Teddy said. «If I were God, I certainly wouldn't want people to love me sentimentally. It's too unreliable

«I wish I knew why people think it's so important to be emotional," Teddy said. «My mother and father don't think a person's human unless he thinks a lot of things are very sad or very annoying or very-very unjust, sort of.

Poets are always taking the weather so personally. They're always sticking their emotions in things that have no emotions

Life is a gift horse in my opinion.

I hate you! I hate everybody in this ocean!»