Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!

I never asked to be born in the first place.

Ideas on earth were badges of friendship or enimity. Their content did not matter. Friends agreed with friends, in order to express friendliness. Enemies disagreed with enemies, in order to express enimity.

kar.a.bek.i.an (n.); (from Rabo Karabekian, U.S. 20th Cent. painter). Fiasco in which a person causes total destruction of own work and reputation through stupidity, carelessness or both.

Plato, by the way, wanted to banish all poets from his proposed Utopia because they were liars. The truth was that Plato knew philosophers couldn't compete successfully with poets.

He didn't look like a soldier at all. He looked like a filthy flamingo.

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer.