People aren’t supposed to look back. I’m certainly not going to do it anymore.
Only nut cases want to be president. This was true even in high school. Only clearly disturbed people ran for class president.
New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.
Much of the conversation in the country consisted of lines from television shows, both past and present.
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. Bec...
I think you guys are going to have to come up with a lot of wonderful new lies, or people just aren't going to want to go on living.
I love you sons of bitches. You’re all I read any more. You're the only ones who’ll talk all about the really terrific changes going on, the only ones crazy enough to know that life is a space voyage,...
I have had all I can stand of not taking myself seriously.
Goodbye blue Monday.
Everything was beautiful and nothing hurt.
Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself.
Every character should want something, even if it is only a glass of water.
Don’t give up on books. They feel so good—their friendly heft. The sweet reluctance of their pages when you turn them with your sensitive fingertips. A large part of our brains is devoted to deciding...
As stupid and vicious as men are, this is a lovely day.
All people are insane. They will do anything at any time, and God help anybody who looks for reasons.
Young Castle called me Scoop. Good Morning, Scoop. What's new in the word game?I might ask the same of you, I replied.I'm thinking of calling a general strike of all writers until mankind finally come...
What a fool I would have been to let self-respect interfere with my happiness!
Well finish your story anyway.Where was I?The bubonic plague. The bulldozer was stalled by corpses.Oh, yes. Anyway, one sleepless night I stayed up with Father while he worked. It was all we could do...
We'd been apart so long--I'd been dead so long, she said in English. I thought surely you'd built a new life, with no room in it for me. I'd hoped that.My life is nothing but room for you. I said. It...
Trout, incidentally, had written a book about a money tree. It had twenty-dollar bills for leaves. Its flowers were government bonds. Its fruit was diamonds. It attracted human beings who killed each...