Low Man on a Totem Pole Quotes

“When I was five years old I fell head downward into an empty cistern and was not found until six hours later, at which time I was quietly eating dirt. The year after that I fell out of a neighbor’s barn loft. These experiences constitute an adequate preparation for a career in journalism — the equivalent of four years in college”
― H. Allen Smith, Low Man on a Totem Pole

“From tender infancy Smith has been an early riser. He sleeps so little that Morpheus barely knows him by sight. When he dreams he only has time for a synopsis. He was the first man to discover that you can cut a sleeping pill in half and enjoy a nap.”
― H. Allen Smith, Low Man on a Totem Pole