He was a graduate of West Point, which is military academy that turns young men into homicidal maniacs for use in war.
Comedians and jazz musicians have been more comforting and enlightening to me than preachers or politicians or philosophers or poets or painters or novelists of my time. Historians in the future, in m...
And on the subject of burning books: I want to congratulate librarians, not famous for their physical strength or their powerful political connections or their great wealth, who, all over this country...
A lot of the nonsense was the innocent result of playfulness on the part of the founding fathers of the nation of Dwayne Hoover and Kilgore Trout. The founders were aristocrats, and they wished to sho...
You can't just eat good food. You've got to talk about it too. And you've got to talk about it to somebody who understands that kind of food.
Why don't you take a flying fuck at a rolling doughnut? Why don't you take a flying fuck at the mooooooooooooon?
When you get right down to it, everybody's having a perfectly lousy time of it, and I mean everyone. And the hell of it is, nothing seems to help much.
What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!
Tiger got to hunt, bird got to fly;Man got to sit and wonder 'why, why, why?'Tiger got to sleep, bird got to land;Man got to tell himself he understand.
There is no peace, I'm sorry to say. We find it. We lose it. We find it again. We lose it again.
There are plenty of good reasons for fighting,' I said, 'but no good reason ever to hate without reservation, to imagine that God Almighty Himself hates with you, too. Where's evil? It's that large pa...
The nicest veterans...the kindest and funniest ones, the ones who hated war the most, were the ones who'd really fought.
She was a dull person, but a sensational invitation to make babies. Men looked at her and wanted to fill her up with babies right away.
Practicing an art, no matter how well or badly, is a way to make your soul grow, for heaven's sake. Sing in the shower. Dance to the radio. Tell stories. Write a poem to a friend, even a lousy poem. D...
Our government's got a war on drugs. That's certainly better then no drugs at all.
No damn cat, and no damn cradle.
It was very exciting for her, taking his dignity away in the name of love.
If onThe serious way Mark talked about the rule reminded Charlay what a marvelous age ten was. And Charley thought it was a pity that everybody couldn't stay ten for the rest of their lives. I everybo...
I am eternally grateful for my knack of finding in great books, some of them very funny books, reason enough to feel honored to be alive, no matter what else might be going on.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.