Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?

We are all experiments in enthusiasms, narrow and preordained.

A lot of people were opposed to it. A lot of people were for it. I myself think about it as little as possible.

The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000. I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.

Eat, drink, and be merry for tomorrow we die.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.