Writers can treat their mental illnesses every day.

Or they'll talk about fear, which we used to call politics- job politics, social politics, government politics.

But he is tired. He puts the pistol to his head again. He says, “I never asked to be born in the first place.

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.

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

My ancestors were Freethinkers - and that's what I am, except we're called secular humanists now.

The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.