“Billy Pilgrim had a theory about diaries. Women were more likely than men to think that their lives had sufficient meaning to require recording on a daily basis. It was not for the most part a God-is-leading-me-on-a-wondrous-journey kind of meaning, but more an I've-gotta-be-me-but-nobody-cares sentimentalism that passed for meaning, and they usually stopped keeping a diary by the time they hit thirty, because by then they didn't want to ponder the meaning of life anymore because it scared the crap out of them.” ThinkingMenWantKindCareJourneyTheoryBasesScaredThirtySufficientMeaning Of LifeCrapDiariesPonderingPilgrimWondrousLeading MeNobody CaresBilly Pilgrim Author:Dean Koontz
“[When her daughter suggested the President refer in his conversation with foreign dignitaries about lawn care to 'fertilizer' instead of to 'manure':] But remember, it took me almost thirty years to get him to call it manure.” YearsCareRememberLanguagePresidentConversationSpeechDaughterThirtyThirty YearsLawnsManureFertilizer Author:Bess Truman