America is dealing death, not only to people of other lands, but to its own people. So say the most thoughtful and passionate of our youth, from California to Connecticut.

Technology and production can be great benefactors of man, but they are mindless instruments, and if undirected they careen along with a momentum of their own. In our country, they pulverize everything in their path - the landscape, the natural environment.

The American dream was not, at least at the beginning, a rags-to-riches type of narrow materialism.

It is not the misuse of power that is evil; the very existence of power is an evil.

One of the problems with fame is they try to pigeonhole you... like I'm stuck with The Greening of America for the rest of my life.

The great crime of our time, says Vonnegut, was to do too much good secretly, too much harm openly.

Innocence and optimism have one basic failing: they have no fundamental depth.