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The government satirizes itself. All we can wish is that there will be a large number of Americans who will realize how dumb this all is, and how greedy and how vicious. Such an audience is dwindling all the time because of TV.

Aside from battles, the history of nations seemed to consist of nothing but powerless old poops like myself, heavily medicated and vaguely beloved in the long ago, coming to kiss the boots of young psychopaths.

There was a time when I could vote for economic justice, and I can’t anymore.

What geography can give all Middle Westerners, along with the fresh water and topsoil, if they let it, is awe for an Edenic continent stretching forever in all directions. Makes you religious. Takes your breath away.

No one can amount to a damn in the arts if he becomes sweetly reasonable, seeing all sides of a picture, forgiving all sins.

Everybody knows that the dumbest people in any American university are in the education department, and English after that.

It seems to me that the most universal revolutionary wish now or ever is a wish for heaven, a wish by a human being to be honored by angels for something other than beauty or usefulness.

People hate it when they’re tickled because laughter is not pleasant, if it goes on too long. I think it’s a desperate sort of convulsion in desperate circumstances, which helps a little.

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 were so many Americans treated by their government as though their lives were as disposable as facial tissues? Because that was the way authors customarily treated bit-part players in their made-up tales.

I think jokes are a perfectly viable form of literature. Some critics take issue with me because I make my points and discuss my ideas with jokes, rather than with oceanic tragedy.

In real life as in grand opera, arias only make hopeless situations worse.

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Each one of us has to be what he or she is.

Did you ever admire an empty-headed writer for his or her mastery of the language? No. So your own winning style must begin with ideas in your head.

Shrapnel was invented by an Englishman of the same name. Don’t you wish you could have something named after you?

Historians in the future, in my opinion, will congratulate us on very little other than our clowning and our jazz.

There were creative-writin g teachers long before there were creative-writin g courses, and they were called and continue to be called editors.

Maybe they invited me because they know I have a tuxedo.

I wish you’d help me look into a more interesting problem – namely, my sanity.

Just because we think we’re so wonderful doesn’t mean we really are. We could be really terrible animals and just never admit it because it would hurt so much.

Don’t worry about your father. He’s a perfectly contented, self-sufficient zombie.

Doesn’t anything socialistic make you want to throw up? Like great public schools, or health insurance for all?

Never have I risked my life, or even my comfort, in the service of mankind. Shame on me.

I am of course a skeptic about the divinity of Christ and a scorner of the notion that there is a God who cares how we are or what we do.

No matter how wonderful a sentence is, if it doesn’t add new and useful information, it should be removed.

I said I wasn’t interested, and she was bright enough to say that she wasn’t really interested either. As things turned out, we both overestimated our apathies, but not that much.

Let there be nothing harmonious about our children’s playthings, lest they grow up expecting peace and order, and be eaten alive.

The highest possible form of treason is to say that Americans aren’t loved wherever they go, whatever they do.

I’m not a drug salesman. I’m a writer.

I am a monopolar depressive descended from monopolar depressives. That’s how come I write so good.

Generally speaking, espionage offers each spy an opportunity to go crazy in a way he finds irresistible.

I could go on to speak of sanity as compared with insanity, decency as compared with vandalism, friendship as compared with rabies.

My God, the religious right will not acknowledge what a merciful person Jesus was.

There’s a Chaplain who never visited the front.

Nowadays, of course, just about our only solvent industry is the merchandising of death, bankrolled by our grandchildren.

There are almost no characters in this story, and almost no dramatic confrontations, because most of the people in it are so sick and so much the listless playthings of enormous forces. One of the main effects of war, after all, is that people are discouraged from being characters.

The slaves were simply turned loose without any property. They were easily recognizable. They were black. They were suddenly free to go exploring.

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.

His response was to fight it with the only weapons at hand – passive resistance and open displays of contempt.

What everybody is well advised to do is to not write about your own life, this is if you want to write fast. You will be writing about your own life anyway but you won’t know it.

Contemplating a purported work of art is a social activity. Either you have a rewarding time, or you don’t. You don’t have to say why afterward. You don’t have to say anything.

I am simply impressed by the unexpected insights which shower down on me when my job is to imagine, as contrasted with the woodenly familiar ideas which clutter my desk when my job is to tell the truth.

When a man becomes a writer, I think he takes on a sacred obligation to produce beauty and enlighenment and comfort at top speed.

You are better than you think. A-one, a-two a-three.

It is harder to be unhappy when you are eating.

Like so many Americans, she was trying to construct a life that made sense from things she found in gift shops.

I couldn’t survive my own pessimism if I didn’t have some kind of sunny little dream.

All male writers, incidentally, no matter how broke or otherwise objectionable, have pretty wives. Somebody should look into this.

Vonnegut could not help looking back, despite the danger of being turned metaphorically into a pillar of salt, into am emblem of the death that comes to those who cannot let go of the past.

I wonder now what Ernest Hemingways dictionary looked like, since he got along so well with dinky words that anybody can spell and truly understand.

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