Homo Americanus is going to go on speaking and writing the way he always has, no matter what dictionary he owns.

The name of the new religion," said Rumfoord, "is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent.

Educate yourself, welcome life's messiness, read Chekhov, avoid becoming an architect at all costs.

The New York Daily News suggested that my biggest war crime was not killing myself like a gentleman. Presumably Hitler was a gentleman.

"Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before," Bokonon tells us. "He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignorance the hard way."

Just because you can read, write and do a little math, doesn't mean that you're entitled to conquer the universe.

Thanks to their decreased brainpower, people aren't diverted from the main business of life by the hobgoblins of opinion anymore.