Jean Shepherd
I've met them down in the Cost and Accounting Department, clean-shaven and in white collars. They can't see a damn thing ridiculous about themselves... only about you.
I had been an eyewitness to a truly historic moment in American pop culture.
That reminds me of something that happened to me when I was a kid.
The hand of fate had dipped into the ragbag of humanity.
The reality of what we really are is often times found in the small snips, way down at the bottom of things.Collection: Reality
Can you imagine 4,000 years passing, and you're not even a memory? Think about it, friends. It's not just a possibility. It is a certainty.Collection: Memories
Some men are Baptists, others Catholics; my father was an Oldsmobile man.Collection: Father
I had woven a tapestry of obscenity that as far as I know is still hanging in space over Lake Michigan.Collection: Space
The Bumpuses were so low down on the evolutionary totem pole that they weren't even included in Darwin's famous family tree. They had inbred and ingrown and finally emerged from the Kentucky hills like some remnant of Attila the Hung's barbarian horde. Flick said that they had webbed feet and only three toes. It might have been true.Collection: Family
Being a White Sox fan meant measuring victory in terms of defeat. A 6-5 defeat was a good day. A big rally was Wally Moses doubling down the right- field line.Collection: Good Day
In God we trust; all others pay cash.Collection: Cash
A man today never feels so alive as when he is hurtling from one point to another on the azimuth.Collection: Men
The truth will always have a market.Collection: Truth
There are fewer things more thrilling in life than lumpy letters. That rattle.Collection: Letters
Manhattan cabs are born old.Collection: New York
In all my years of New York cab riding I have yet to find the colorful, philosophical cabdriver that keeps popping up on the late movies.Collection: New York
Randy lay there like a slug. It was his only defense.Collection: Defense