One of the few good things about modern times: If you die horribly on television, you will not have died in vain. You will have entertained us.

The gun made a ripping sound like the opening of a zipper on the fly of God Almighty.

People are only animals, but special animals. Every animal has fought and killed to survive, even before the dinosaurs. We're the only ones that do it for fun. That's why I don't know about Darwinism. Supposedly evolution and natural selection are all about survival, but we haven't gotten smarter over the years, only more dangerous.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past

You don't do art for any other reason than to help your soul grow.

And what do the birds say? All there is to say about a massacre, things like "Poo-tee-weet?

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.