“Any reviewer who expresses rage and loathing for a novel is preposterous. He or she is like a person who has put on full armor and attacked a hot fudge sundae.”
“I want to stay as close to the edge as I can without going over. Out on the edge you see all kinds of things you can’t see from the center.”
“If you can do a half-assed job of anything, you’re a one-eyed man in a kingdom of the blind.”
“Laughter and tears are both responses to frustration and exhaustion. I myself prefer to laugh, since there is less cleaning up to do afterward.”
“Life happens too fast for you ever to think about it. If you could just persuade people of this, but they insist on amassing information.”
“Say what you will about the sweet miracle of unquestioning faith, I consider a capacity for it terrifying and absolutely vile!”
“Those who believe in telekinetics, raise my hand”
“Thanks to TV and for the convenience of TV, you can only be one of two kinds of human beings, either a liberal or a conservative.”
“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.”
Maturity is a bitter disappointment for which no remedy exists, unless laughter can be said to remedy anything.” Cat’s Cradle
“Here’s what I think the truth is: We are all addicts of fossil fuels in a state of denial, about to face cold turkey.” Cold Turkey
“We are what we pretend to be, so we must be careful what we pretend to be.”
“Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.” Slaughterhouse Five
