The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected.

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,stop- I am not choking. I have emphysema.

And I apologize to all of you who are the same age as my grandchildren. And many of you reading this are the same age as my grandchildren. They, like you, are being royally shafted and lied to by our Baby Boomer corporations and government.

We were all gun nuts and they were called varmints, crows were, because they ate grain and so did we.

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

Maturity, the way I understand it, is knowing what your limitations are.

I saw the destruction of Dresden. I saw the city before and then came out of an air-raid shelter and saw it afterward, and certainly one response was laughter. God knows, that's the soul seeking some relief.