We could have saved the earth, but we were too damned cheap.

I learned how to make jokes because I wanted to give people as much fun as they did, and I guess I did, too.

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.

When we passed a Catholic church, I recalled, he said, "You think your dad's a good chemist? They're turning soda crackers into meat in there. Can your dad do that?

The surface of Earth heaved and seethed in fecund restlessness. Earth was most fertile where the most death was.

Well, it's practically over, thank God - I'm 83, there won't be that much more of it to put up with I don't think!

Do you think Arabs are dumb? They gave us our numbers. Try doing long division with Roman numerals.