You have to go, but I have to stay..

My soul knows my meat is doing bad things, and is embarrassed. But my meat just keeps right on doing bad, dumb things..

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….

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

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….

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….

A lover's a liar, To himself he lies, The truthful are loveless, Like oysters their eyes!.

It used to be said of a man who had suffered a catastrophic setback in his line of work that he had been handed his head on a platter. We are being h….

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….

Here we are, trapped in the amber of the moment. There is no why..

Why throw money at problems? That is what money is for. Should the nation's wealth be redistributed? It has been and continues to be redistributed to….

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..

It is always pitiful when any human being falls into a condition hardly more respectable than that of an animal. How much more pitiful it is when the….

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

Everyone now knows how to find the meaning of life within himself..

Plato says that the unexamined life is not worth living. But what if the examined life turns out to be a clunker as well?.

We are here for no purpose, unless we can invent one..

But there’s a reason we recognize Hamlet as a masterpiece: it’s that Shakespeare told us the truth, and people so rarely tell us the truth in this ri….

A society is only as healthy as its ideas are humane..

You'll forget it when you're dead, and so will I. When I'm dead, I'm going to forget everything–and I advise you to do the same..