True terror is to wake up one morning and discover that your high school class is running the country.

I'm eighty-three and I've been smoking since I was eleven. I'm suing the cigarette company because it promised to kill me and it hasn't.

The only proof he needed for the existance of God was music.

It is almost always a mistake to mention Abraham Lincoln. He always steals the show.

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

We have such a young culture that there is an opportunity to contribute wonderful new myths to it, which will be accepted.

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.