We're here on Earth to fart around

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

The name of the new religion, said Rumfoord, is The Church of God the Utterly Indifferent. . . The two chief teachings of this religion are these: Puny man can do nothing at all to help or please God Almighty, and Luck is not the hand of God.

Trust a crowd to look at the wrong end of a miracle every time.

If you really want to hurt your parents and you don't have nerve enough to be homosexual, the least you can do is go into the arts.

You have never seen greatness in a Presidency; I have. It was a rich kid who you would think had every reason to be a horse's ass - Franklin Roosevelt. He was humane and wise and resourceful. He was called a traitor to his class.