Hardly anyone in the world is an American

And we all vied, in saving face, to be the greatest student of human nature, the person with the quickest sense of humor.

The only way to get anything out of a writer's brains is to leave him or her alone until he or she is damn well ready to write it down.

Don't be reckless with other peoples hearts. And don't put up with people that are reckless with yours.

Man is vile, and man makes nothing worth making, knows nothing worth knowing.

Kilgore Trout once wrote a short story which was a dialogue between two pieces of yeast. They were discussing the possible purposes of life as they ate sugar and suffocated in their own excrement. Because of their limited intelligence, they never came close to guessing that they were making champagne.

We are never as modern, as far ahead of the past as we like to think we are.