Unfortunately, that still leaves plenty of Americans who don't read much or think much -- who will still be extremely useful in unjust wars. We are s….

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

It's perfectly ordinary to be a socialist. It's perfectly normal to be in favor of fire departments..

Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth..

Here was what Kilgore Trout cried out to me in my father's voice: "Make me young, make me young, make me young!.

It shook up Trout to realize that even he could bring evil into the world — in the form of bad ideas..

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….

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 a….

Trout was petrified there on Forty-second Street. It had given him a life not worth living, but I had also given him an iron will to live. This was a….

Kurt Vonnegut speaking to John Irving while Irving was administering the Heimlich maneuver in response to Vonnegut's uncontrollable coughing..."John,….

Make war not on terrorism but on ignorance, on sickness and on environmental degradation..

Dear future generations: Please accept our apologies. We were rolling drunk on petroleum..

Just because something feels better than anything else, that doesn't mean it's good for you..

Talent is extremely common. What is rare is the willingness to endure the life of the writer..

What do my science fiction stories have in common with pornography? Fantasies of an impossibly hospitable world, I'm told..

Two radical ideas have been introduced into human thought. One of them is that energy and matter are pretty much the same sort of stuff. That's Einst….

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..

We were German-Americans in a British colony, so we were outsiders..

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 ….

The two prime movers in the Universe are Time and Luck..

So I went to New York City to be born again. It was and remains easy for most Americans to go somewhere else and start anew. I wasn't like my parents….