The only difference between Hitler and Bush is that Hitler was elected..

The other American divisions on our flanks managed to pull out: We were obliged to stay and fight. Bayonets aren't much good against tanks..

I've got at least one tiny corner of the universe I can make just the way I want it..

If somebody says, "I love you," to me, I feel as though I had a pistol pointed at my head. What can anybody reply under such conditions but that whic….

We're a terribly lonesome society. For all I know, all societies are. You can make a few new friends, that's all. You can't change history. History i….

How subservient to Jesus, or to a humane God Almighty, were the leaders of this country back in the 1840's, when Marx said such a supposedly evil thi….

I asked this heroic pet lover how it felt to have died for a schnauzer named Teddy. Salvador Biagiani was philosophical. He said it sure beat dying f….

Here is a lesson in creative writing. First rule: Do not use semicolons. They are transvestite hermaphrodites representing absolutely nothing. All th….

Where is home? I've wondered where home is, and I realized, it's not Mars or someplace like that, it's Indianapolis when I was nine years old. I had ….

The universe is a big place, perhaps the biggest..

If Jesus was alive today, we would kill him with lethal injection. I call that progress. We would have to kill him for the same reason he was killed ….

Shortridge High School was an elitist high school. In a way it was a scandal because you could go there no matter where you lived, if you could get t….

Sometimes I think it is a great mistake to have matter that can think and feel. It complains so. By the same token, though, I suppose that boulders a….

A book is an arrangement of twenty-six phonetic symbols, ten numerals, and about eight punctuation marks, and people can cast their eyes over these a….

I think I succeeded as a writer because I did not come out of an English department. I used to write in the chemistry department. And I wrote some go….

We're terrible animals. I think that the Earth's immune system is trying to get rid of us, as well it should..

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….

Somebody realized, hey, students are printing dummy ads and dummy news stories, why don't they really print something. So there was the Shortridge Da….

I don't think he was knowable. I mean, when most people talk about knowing somebody a lot or a little, they're talking about the secrets they've been….

All was forgiven. All living things were brothers, and all dead things were even more so..

We'd all do well to start over again, preferably with kindergarten..