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 condi...tions but that which the pistol-holder requires? "I love you, too."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Being American is to eat a lot of beef steak, and boy, we've got a lot more beef steak than any other country, and that's why you ...ought to be glad you're an American. And people have started looking at these big hunks of bloody meat on their plates, you know, and wondering what on earth they think they're doing.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
What war has always been is a puberty ceremony. It's a very rough one, but you went away a boy and came back a man, maybe with an ...eye missing or whatever but godammit you were a man and people had to call you a man thereafter.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The feeling about a soldier is, when all is said and done, he wasn't really going to do very much with his life anyway. The exampl...e usually is: "he wasn't going to compose Beethoven's Fifth."LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
The two real political parties in America are the Winners and the Losers. The people don't acknowledge this. They claim membership... in two imaginary parties, the Republicans and the Democrats, instead.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
Human beings will be happier--not when they cure cancer or get to Mars or eliminate racial prejudice or flush Lake Erie but when t...hey find ways to inhabit primitive communities again. That's my utopia.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I was taught that the human brain was the crowning glory of evolution so far, but I think it's a very poor scheme for survival.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
I have been a soreheaded occupant of a file drawer labeled "Science Fiction" ... and I would like out, particularly since so many ...serious critics regularly mistake the drawer for a urinal.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »
About astrology and palmistry: they are good because they make people vivid and full of possibilities. They are communism at its b...est. Everybody has a birthday and almost everybody has a palm.LESSATTRIBUTION DETAIL »