Quotes on Breakfast Of Champions

We are healthy only to the extent that our ideas are humane.

New knowledge is the most valuable commodity on earth. The more truth we have to work with, the richer we become.

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 common combination on the planet Earth.

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.

There is no order in the world around us, we must adapt ourselves to the requirements of chaos instead.

The proper ending for any story about people it seems to me, since life is now a polymer in which the Earth is wrapped so tightly, should be the same abbreviation, which I now write large because I feel like it, which is this one: ETC.

What is the purpose of life?...To be the eyes and ears and conscience of the Creator of the Universe, you fool!

Seems like the only kind of job an American can get these days is committing suicide in some way.

I couldn't help wondering if that was what God put me on Earth for--to find out how much a man could take without breaking.

Earthlings went on being friendly, when they should have been thinking instead.