Those imaginary lines are as unreal to me as elves and pixies. I can’t believe that they mark the end or the beginning of anything of real concern to a human soul. Virtues and vices, pleasures and pai...
There is room enough for an awful lot of people to be right about things and still not agree.
There is no reason why good cannot triumph as often as evil. The triumph of anything is a matter of organization. If there are such things as angels, I hope that they are organized along the lines of...
The visitor from outer space made a serious study of Christianity, to learn, if he could, why Christians found it so easy to be cruel. He concluded that at least part of the trouble was slipshod story...
The Population Reference Bureau predicts that the world's total population will double to 7,000,000,000 before the year 2000.I suppose they will all want dignity, I said.
Sometimes I think that's the trouble with the world: too many people in high places who are stone-cold dead.
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.
It is so short and jumbled and jangled, Sam, because there is nothing intelligent to say about a massacre. Everybody is supposed to be dead, to never say anything or want anything ever again. Everythi...
I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.
I am a very bad scientist. I will do anything to make a human being feel better, even if it's unscientific. No scientist worthy of the name could say such a thing.
I am a Tralfamadorian, seeing all time as you might see a stretch of the Rocky Mountains. All time is all time. It does not change. It does not lend itself to warnings or explanations. It simply is.
Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All they do is show you've been to college.
Charm was a scheme for making strangers like and trust a person immediately, no matter what the charmer had in mind.
Anyway—because we are readers, we don't have to wait for some communications executive to decide what we should think about next—and how we should think about it. We can fill our heads with anything f...
People have to talk about something just to keep their voice boxes in working order so they'll have good voice boxes in case there's ever anything really meaningful to say.
Why you? Why us for that matter? Why anything? Because this moment simply is.
There is nothing left of him but curiosity and a pair of eyes.
The waitress brought me another drink. She wanted to light my hurricane lamp again. I wouldn't let her.Can you see anything in the dark, with your sunglasses on? she asked me.The big show is inside my...
Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.
Oh, God — the lives people try to lead.Oh, God — what a world they try to lead them in.