The planet was being destroyed by manufacturing processes, and what was being manufactured was lousy, by and large.

All this happened, more or less.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don't you wish you could have something named after you?

She upset Billy simply by being his mother. She made him feel embarrassed and ungrateful and weak because she had gone to so much trouble to give him life, and to keep that life going, and Billy didn't really like life at all.

The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.

I couldn't survive my own pessimism if I didn't have some kind of sunny little dream.

Everything about life is a joke. Don't you know that?