The America I love still exists at the front desks of our public libraries.

As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to a few people in a manner strikingly unhelpful.

Teaching, may I say, is the noblest profession of all in a democracy.

I was clasified as a 'Science Fiction' writer simply because I wrote about Schenectady.

Electronic communities build nothing. You wind up with nothing. We are dancing animals. How beautiful it is to get up and go out and do something. We are here on Earth to fart around. Don't let anybody tell you any different.

The city was blacked out because bombers might come, so Billy didn't get to see Dresden do one of the most cheerful things a city can do when the sun goes down, which is to wink its lights on one by one.