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

Love may fail, but #‎ courtesy will prevail.

The big trouble with dumb bastards is that they are too dumb to believe there is such a thing as being smart.

One thing in the Middlewest: If you're in my business you're aware of the low opinion both coasts have of the midlands. And that is quite mistaken. New York would be a Kokomo if it weren't for Middlewesterners coming there.

What had made me move through so many dead and pointless years was curiosity.

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

He did not think of himself as a writer for the simple reason that the world had never allowed him to think of himself in this way.