04UndatedDo you realize how hard it is to keep your mind clear when somebody’s telling you to keep your mind clear?Tom Upton / quote ↗
05UndatedYou can’t believe in fate only when it sends you something you want, only when things turn out right. You have to accept what fate sends you or doesn’t send you, no matter whether or not you like it.Tom Upton / quote ↗
06UndatedIf you just go with the flow, no matter what weird things happen along the way, you always end up exactly where you belong.Tom Upton / quote ↗
08UndatedYou know, my main goal in life is trying not to end up in a straightjacket.Tom Upton / quote ↗
09Undated"Well-- I don’t know-- the cops might not respond too well to you looking through their windows with a telescope."Tom Upton / quote ↗
10UndatedI don’t believe it! You’re still interested in the girl, despite the fact that she might be some kind of alien. Does this sickness of yours have any bounds?Tom Upton / quote ↗
11UndatedAll I did was offer to kill your dog, and the next thing I know I’m being judged.Tom Upton / quote ↗
12UndatedI’ve always found wildlife very calming-- except when animals are eating each other, of course.Tom Upton / quote ↗
13UndatedWho in their right mind counts the tiles on the floor when they go visiting a neighbor?Tom Upton / quote ↗
14UndatedSome people are born to weirdness,” Jerry said, “and others have weirdness thrust upon them.Tom Upton / quote ↗
15UndatedLibrarians are notorious snitches—don’t let anybody convince you otherwise.Tom Upton / quote ↗
17UndatedYou have to figure that there is something seriously wrong with somebody who wants to enter a profession that deals with whether people are screwing enough. Dealing with spirits, spooks, and demons almost seemed normal.Tom Upton / quote ↗
18UndatedIt was at this time that I formed one of my own insights: it was strange how intelligent people, like Raffles, without being asked, freely spout off their insights and actually expect less intelligent people, like me, to be interested.Tom Upton / quote ↗
19UndatedIt is not easy being trapped in a school that is caught between cornfields and cows.Tom Upton / quote ↗
21UndatedIt wasn’t human nature to leave things alone. It was normal for people to try to fix things that didn’t need to be fixed; or, infinitely worse, trying to fix things that were broken, because some things are meant to be broken--Tom Upton / quote ↗
22UndatedYour dad and I have been talking.”“You need to stop that. The marriage will last longer.Tom Upton / quote ↗
23UndatedI have never been reduced to begging somebody to leave me alone, but in your case I’ll make an exception.Tom Upton / quote ↗
