Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each other around the roots and made very good fertilizer.

There are too many of us and we are all too far apart.

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

What Franklin Roosevelt did, which really offended them, was he strengthened the labor unions - made it possible for them to strike. The oligarchs were furious because the working class was not supposed to have any power at all.

Thinking doesn't seem to help very much. The human brain is too high-powered to have many practical uses in this particular universe.

Some persons seem to like you, and others seem to hate you, and you must wonder why. They are simply liking machines and hating machines.

Sons of suicides seldom do well.