The crowd, having been promised nothing, felt cheated, having received nothing.

People say there are no atheists in foxholes. A lot of people think this is a good argument against atheism. Personally, I think it's a much better argument against foxholes.

What's going to happen is, very soon, we're going to run out of petroleum, and everything depends on petroleum. And there go the school buses. There go the fire engines. The food trucks will come to a halt. This is the end of the world.

Literature should not disappear up its own asshole, so to speak.

Human beings are about 1,000 times dumber and meaner than they think they are.

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck.

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