The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.

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

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas.

It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.

There was a still life on Billy's bedside table-two pills, an ashtray with three lipstick-stained cigarettes in it, one cigarette still burning, and a glass of water. The water was dead. So it goes. Air was trying to get out of the dead water. Bubbles were clinging to the walls of the glass, too weak to climb out.

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!