The Illustrated Man1969

Carl:
[shouting at the lake] Now shut up now, come on now! Shut up! All you do is make noise in the world!

[speaking to Willie]

Carl:
That's how you handle little things, see. You just yell at 'em and they just shut up like a clam. And that puts 'em in their proper place. Man I don't like little things. I don't like - bugs, and frogs, and spiders, and creepy crawly things that *zing* out at 'cha and bite 'cha when you're not lookin'. You know what a tick looks like?

Willie:
Well, sure I seen ticks.

Carl:
Yeah, well they're the worst because they find ya no matter where ya are, and they creep up ya and they suck your blood, see? Ooh they stink, those rotten things.