You realize, of course, that everything I say is horseshit.

I'm an old guy, and I was protesting during the Vietnam War. We killed fifty Asians for every loyal American. Every artist worth a damn in this country was terribly opposed to that war, finally, when it became evident what a fiasco and meaningless butchery it was.

If I am ever put to death on the hook, expect a very human performance.

No moral value is greater than humanity.

The biggest laughs are based on the biggest disappointments and the biggest fears.

That’s the attractive thing about war,” said Rosewater. “Absolutely everybody gets a little something.

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been told or haven't been told. They're talking about intimate things, family things, love things," that nice old lady said to me. "Mr. Hoenikker had all those things in his life, the way every living person has to, but they weren't the main things with him.