It was about people whose mental diseases couldn’t be treated because the causes of the diseases were all in the fourth dimension, and three-dimensional Earthling doctors couldn’t see those causes at...
I'm odd, I know,' he said. 'It's fear of myself that's made me odd.
I will say, too, that lovemaking, if sincere, is one of the best ideas Satan put in the apple she gave to the serpent to give to Eve. The best idea in that apple, though, is making jazz.
I love you, Eliza, I said.She thought about it. No, she said at last, I don’t like it.Why not? I said.It’s as though you were pointing a gun at my head, she said. It’s just a way of getting somebody t...
I have been a writer since 1949. I am self-taught. I have no theories about writing that might help others. When I write, I simply become what I seemingly must become. I am six feet two and weigh near...
I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.
I can't tell if you're serious or not,' said the driver. I won't know myself until I find out if life is serious or not,' said Trout. 'It's dangerous, I know, and it can hurt a lot. That doesn't neces...
God made mud.God got lonesome.So God said to some of the mud, Sit up!See all I've made, said God, the hills, the sea, thesky, the stars.And I was some of the mud that got to sit up and lookaround.Luck...
Fred Bockman is thirty and looks eighteen. Life has left no marks on him, because he hasn’t paid much attention to it.
Dwayne's bad chemicals made him take a loaded thirty-eight caliber revolver from under his pillow and stick it in his mouth. This was a tool whose only purpose was to make holes in human beings.
But she did look back, and I love her for that, because it was so human. So she was turned to a pillar of salt. So it goes. People aren't supposed to look back. I'm certainly not going to do it anymor...
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before.
Beware of the man who works hard to learn something, learns it, and finds himself no wiser than before. He is full of murderous resentment of people who are ignorant without having come by their ignor...
All right - I'll tell you what you did for me: you went for happy, silly, beautiful walks with me.
This is a hard world to be ludicrous in, with so many human beings so reluctant to laugh, so incapable of thought, so eager to believe and snarl and hate.
I'm not a drug salesman. I'm a writer.What makes you think a writer isn't a drug salesman?
As I approached my fiftieth birthday, I had become more and more enraged and mystified by the idiot decisions made by my countrymen. And then I had come suddenly to pity them, for I understood how inn...
As Bokonon says: 'peculiar travel suggestions are dancing lessons from god.
A lover's a liar,To himself he lies,The truthful are loveless,Like oysters their eyes!